Our weekly digest of articles about emerging Europe published elsewhere this week, all of which caught our eye and all of which are well worth your time. Listing them...
Analysis
For most of emerging Europe, LGBTIQ rights and social inclusion remain contentious issues with no clear path forward. Poland and Hungary especially have seen a sharp...
In an effort to fill the breach left by Brexit, the UK government has increased to 30,000 the number of visas it will issue to seasonal agricultural workers. The visas...
It’s one of the many, largely forgotten stories of recent decades in emerging Europe: the killing, on January 13, 1991 – exactly 30 years ago – of 14...
A corruption scandal involving his Centre party has forced the Estonian prime minister, Jüri Ratas, to resign. The biggest losers, however, could be the far-right EKRE...
Just as Poland calls for the protection of free speech, three Polish women face trial – and the risk of up to two years in prison – for blasphemy. A court in...
A lack of long-term solutions and safe routes to Europe has once again created a humanitarian crisis on the EU’s borders. A number of leading human rights...
The leaders of Armenian and Azeri met in Moscow on January 11 for the first time since end of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, but agreed little. The leaders of Armenia and...
Bidzina Ivanishvili, the head of Georgia’s ruling party and the country’s richest person, has said that he is quitting politics. But will he? This, after all, is...
Kazakhstan’s ruling party, as expected, took victory in an opposition-free parliamentary election on January 10, while in neighbouring Kyrgyzstan a prisoner-turned...
Our weekly digest of articles about emerging Europe published elsewhere this week, all of which caught our eye and all of which are well worth your time. Listing them...
A Czech organisation is helping people in conflict-hit eastern Ukraine with both material and psychological support. More than six years of armed conflict in eastern...