Kyrgyzstan’s government hopes an entirely new city on Lake Issyk-Kul will increase foreign investment, boost tourism and offer skilled Kyrgyz well paid jobs. With...
Analysis
Children across Ukraine are showing signs of widespread learning loss, including a deterioration in learning outcomes of the Ukrainian language, reading and mathematics...
Three and a half years after the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, Azerbaijan’s land borders remain closed. The personal and economic costs are mounting. On August...
EU Council President Charles Michel this week offered membership hopefuls plenty of sweet talk, but little substance. The bakery at the Park Hotel in the Slovenian...
Hungary excepted, Central and Eastern Europe is eager to end its reliance on Russia for nuclear fuel and technology. Rosatom, Russia’s state-owned nuclear energy...
Few people outside of Russia take former president and PM Dmitry Medvedev seriously, but his recent comments suggesting Moscow might annex parts of Georgia would have...
The fintech industry has been a key part of Ukraine’s resilience in the face of Russia’s brutal full-scale invasion. Andrii Kryvoshapko, CEO of NovaPay, part of the Nova...
The Three Seas Initiative currently lacks the political backing that would see it given the leadership and financial support it needs to gain any real momentum, but...
For more than three decades, George Soros’s Open Society Foundations network has provided billions of euros of crucial funding to civil society organisations across...
Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia all have large construction industries, with Armenia and Georgia’s ranking in the top eight countries in Europe and Central Asia for...
After decades of near unconditional support for Prishtina, the US and EU blamed Kosovo’s PM Albin Kurti for provoking a crisis in the north of the country...
Hungary’s economy will perform better in the second half of 2023—it could hardly do any worse—but not enough to avoid a full-year recession. As athletes from...
