It’s now more than a year since Beijing officially opened a new transportation corridor that connects China with Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, but it remains far from...
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The work of former EBRD chief Sir Suma Chakrabarti and groundbreaking scientist Katalin Karikó is recognised as part of Emerging Europe’s latest awards programme...
Originally dubbed Mini-Schengen, a Western Balkans economic collaboration initiative now known as Open Balkans will offer free movement across Serbia, Albania, and North...
As traditional waste destinations such as China close their doors to EU rubbish, the bloc’s richer member states are looking to those in the east. The result – a huge...
At the last minute, Montenegro last month successfully paid the first instalment of a one billion US dollars loan owed to Exim Bank of China, a loan that threatened to...
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...
Environmental groups fear that new Romanian legislation threatens Europe’s largest population of bears. When news emerged in May that a Liechtenstein prince had been...
Poor enforcement of environmental legislation, combined with climate change, has put the Dnipro river on the brink of an ecological disaster. Every summer, the “beaches”...
Covid-19 vaccination rates in many parts of Central and Eastern Europe remain low. Not only does this make those countries vulnerable to new waves of the pandemic, it...
Georgia has turned to soft power in an attempt to woo its breakaway territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia back to the fold. The 1990s was a grim, turbulent and...
A bipartisan group of US senators have warned the Polish government against the adoption of a new media law that they say threatens a major US investor in the country...
Several countries in Central and Eastern Europe are strengthening their relationship with Taiwan, much to the annoyance of China. In July, the Lithuanian and Taiwanese...
