Kosovo’s fragile ruling coalition collapsed late on March 25, after a 12-hour session of parliament that ended with the government losing a vote of no confidence...
Analysis
Emerging Europe was set for an eventful political season this spring. A number of elections were scheduled for April and May, but the coronavirus pandemic has forced...
In a sign that the European Union is continuing to conduct political business despite much of its staff and resources having been shifted to deal with the coronavirus...
Aslan Bzhania, an opposition leader, has been elected president of Abkhazia, one of two Georgian regions occupied by Russia. According to the Central Election Commission...
The first of our weekly updates – published every Monday – looking at the spread, mitigation and – hopefully – eradication of the coronavirus epidemic across the...
Three weeks after a landmark parliamentary election celebrated across Europe, the situation looks dire for Igor Matovič, Slovakia’s newly appointed prime minister...
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...
Six years after the Russian military occupied Crimea and seized the peninsula from Ukraine (based on the results of a carefully orchestrated referendum which was neither...
The Covid-19 pandemic has now swept through every country in Europe, causing many to close down schools and ban any public gatherings. But the sudden halt to public life...
“We are not a traditional government department,” says Ott Vatter, the managing director of Estonia’s enormously successful e-residency programme. One look at the...
The European Commission has put forward its new long-term strategy for the Eastern Partnership (EaP), the EU’s neighbourhood policy initiative and cooperation framework...
wiiw: Eastern European economies could be set for their worst year since the global financial crisis
The Vienna Institute of International Economic Studies (wiiw) has claimed that the economic impact of coronavirus on emerging Europe will be the worst since the global...