The companies of Lőrinc Mészáro, a childhood friend of the Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán, enjoyed another good year in 2019. According to Hungarian business news...
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The supply of Russian oil to Belarus is becoming an increasingly political issue, as the respective governments continue to negotiate a long-term agreement on the flow...
A former prime minister, Zoran Milanović, was elected president of Croatia on January 5, easily defeating the pre-election favourite, Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović...
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...
The Russian news agency Sputnik has closed its office in Estonia after all 35 of its employees resigned following what the agency claims was pressure from the Estonian...
Complaining about hours spent in traffic has become a ritual as much a part of a Romanian Christmas and New Year as the eating of sarmale, the stuffed cabbage rolls...
The Central and Eastern European region remains “particularly vulnerable” to the influence of authoritarian regimes such as Russia, China and Turkey, since democracies...
As Serbia announces major new spending increases, opposition plans boycott of parliamentary election
Facing a parliamentary election in the spring, Serbia’s ruling Progressive party is hoping that new spending plans – which include higher pensions, increases...
Ukraine’s war-torn Donbas region is unlikely to find a road to peace in 2020 unless the country’s president Volodymyr Zelensky can shore up international...
Emerging Europe crunched the numbers to find out which of the 23 capitals of the region offers its citizens the highest quality of living. Prague came out on top...
If Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, was hoping to make a dent in Georgia’s booming tourist industry when he introduced a ban on Russian airlines flying to...
We started the year with a bang, proclaiming Romania, then led by prime minister Viorica Dancila, unready to take on the presidency of the Council of the European Union...