Deutsche Welle recently published a comment on Bosnia and Herzegovina written by Stefan Schwarz, a renowned German politician. In the text, the author advocates a...
Opinion
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Summers should be relaxed, with vacations at the seaside and little interesting news. But in July, following accusations of corruption and state protection of the mafia...
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov paid his first official visit to Georgia last week. During a meeting with his Georgian counterpart David Zalkaliani, both...
Daniel Mitov writes in an op-ed for Emerging Europe that the situation in Georgia “is a poor sign for the health of an aspiring democracy”. Mr Mitov is entitled to his...
A ray of light emerges from the darkness; after emerging from his medical induced coma, Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader, is now able to walk and speak –...
This year brought us a new normal. Covid-19 and shelter-in-place mandates have prompted remote environments and more virtual activity across the workplace. As a result...
The number of people in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) who have accessed at least one online service has risen by 15 per cent points since the start of the Covid-19...
For most, elections mean listening to or watching an election campaign, selecting the candidate on election day and waiting for the results in the evening. When thinking...
Georgia has come a long way since the fall of Eduard Shevardnadze in 2003 and the chaos caused by a war with Russia in 2008, pursuing ever-closer economic, social and...
The recent agreement between Kosovo and Serbia, brokered by the US, to normalise economic relations between the two countries fell short of the needed reconciliation...
The long-standing authoritarian leader of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, is experiencing the most turbulent period of his presidency. After stealing another election...
In July, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) invalidated the EU-US privacy shield, which allowed companies to sign up to higher privacy standards before...
