Bulgarians are hoping that the EU’s new chief prosecutor, Laura Codruța Kövesi, will help them fight corruption. To do so, she will need local support. Almost a...
Analysis
A long campaign by Roma women in Czechia who were forcibly sterilised appears to be finally coming to a successful conclusion. The lower house of the Czech parliament...
Municipal elections in South East Europe tend not to grab too many headlines outside of the region, but two recent ballots – in Sarajevo and Zagreb – have...
In the Lithuanian capital Vilnius, a former prison has been turned into a cultural hub. Lukiškės prison, one of the most notorious buildings in Vilnius, the capital of...
Once sold as a way to promote economic growth and reverse social inequalities, microcredit in Central Asia increasingly looks more like a way to rebrand marginalised...
A proposed new law in Hungary targeting content that “promotes” or “portrays” sexual and gender diversity could have sweeping consequences for health providers...
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...
In a bid to boost Romania’s faltering Covid-19 vaccination campaign, hit by widespread vaccine hesitancy, one mayor has turned to a tried and tested method of...
Just as it looked as though talks between Serbia and Kosovo would resume as early as next week, a row between the prime ministers of the two countries might have set the...
Can a proposed new bill really break the stranglehold of Ukraine’s oligarchs? Ukraine’s president, Volodymr Zelensky, has finally submitted a long-awaited...
A new health innovation hub in Warsaw is the first step towards creating a Polish Medical Valley, modelled on European clusters and ecosystems. Poland’s Prime...
Polish authorities claim that they are prepared to close Europe’s most polluting power plant by the end of 2036. Not soon enough, say environmental campaigners. Poland’s...
