The OECD, an influential club for wealthy countries, may soon be welcoming three new members from emerging Europe into its ranks. Three countries from Central and...
Analysis
A high-speed rail link between Western and Eastern Europe could make an important contribution to the EU’s climate goals and advance the economic integration of the...
Authoritarian governments continue to use the Covid-19 pandemic as cover to consolidate political control and restrict human rights. The 2021 Corruption Perceptions...
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...
Serbia may be sitting on 10 per cent of the world’s lithium, but the country’s government this week decided it will stay in the ground. Anglo-Australian...
CEE engagement with Taiwan is no longer about baiting Beijing. Increasingly, Taipei offers investment and partnership opportunities that can have a deep impact on the...
The European Union wants to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 55 per cent by 2030. Poland is currently threatening to stall legislation that would make the target...
Another week of diplomacy over Ukraine sees US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock visit Kyiv, but peace is ultimately a...
In 2014, Romania’s then prime minister, Victor Ponta, was forced to hand back his doctorate after it emerged that much of his thesis had been plagiarised. The country’s...
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...
Turkmenistan’s president, Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, has ordered that the country’s most famous sight, the Darvaza gas crater, or Gates of Hell, be...
As Russia says it has ‘run out of patience’ with NATO, Ukraine is hit by a ‘massive’ cyberattack. Ukraine was hit by a “massive”...
