The economy of Belarus has adjusted to sanctions and the loss of key export markets slightly better than expected. The future, however, is deeply uncertain. ...
Analysis
Bulgaria and Romania will likely need to wait at least another 12 months before joining the Schengen border-free travel zone. That’s bad news for their economies...
A plan to make immigration the key issue of a forthcoming election has spectacularly backfired for Poland’s ruling party. Will it now admit that the country desperately...
Budapest’s Ferenc Liszt International Airport—a major regional flight hub—could return to government control after years of private ownership. It’s the latest target of...
Nine months after the start of Baku’s blockade of the Lachin Corridor, there is a new government in Karabakh and Azerbaijan has allowed humanitarian supplies to be...
As investment and trade increase, Kazakhstan’s economy is performing strongly even as oil prices and production seem set to decline. With 19.2 million people and...
A month before Poland votes in an already divisive election, a major human rights group suggests that the country’s government is carrying out a ‘ruthless...
In her State of the Union speech on September 13, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen renewed calls for Ukraine and Moldova’s EU integration, and...
Armenia’s existing forests contribute significantly to the economic and environmental needs of the nation. Reforestation can boost biodiversity and climate...
Moldova is turning away from Russia, decisively so, and voters appear ready to back the shift. A new poll in Moldova by the International Republican Institute’s...
Director Agnieszka Holland’s latest film, The Green Border, is not to the liking of Poland’s ruling party. This week I have been in contact with the Emerging...
Slovakia has had three governments in as many years and will soon have another, with elections just over three weeks away. But this time, the country’s democracy and...
