Slovenia has become the first country in the EU and emerging Europe to declare the end of the coronavirus epidemic. The decision was taken on May 14 after the number of...
The coronavirus pandemic has created a global framework in which governments can act in support of businesses and individuals. Romania, although it has the possibility...
Lockdowns are coming to an end, restrictions are being relaxed. The Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia have even said that they will open their borders to...
Emerging Europe’s culture sector has been severely hit by the Covid-19 pandemic and needs support to help it survive, experts and representatives from artists’...
An administrative blunder by Romania’s government means that the country’s 20 million people can from midnight on May 14 look forward to three days with no...
The European Commission has revealed a package of guidelines and recommendations to help member states gradually lift travel restrictions and allow tourism businesses to...
The number of health-related public procurement tenders announced by governments and international organisations in emerging Europe increased by 80 per cent in the first...
Restarting travel and tourism in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic is the next headache facing governments across the emerging Europe region, particularly those in which...
Poland’s presidential vote this week became the latest election to fall victim to Covid-19, although until late on Wednesday night it looked as though the poll...
Emerging Europe could be set for a resurgence in outsourcing to the region, both manufacturing and services, according to the Vienna Institute for International Economic...
Article 56 of the Geneva Convention makes it clear that an occupying state is obliged to ensure and maintain satisfactory healthcare and hygiene conditions in occupied...
While Slovenia continues to have the highest rate of deaths from Covid-19 per capita in the emerging Europe region, the country reported no new cases on May 3, the first...
There is no exciting way to start this story. Let’s just face the quarantine truth. Millions of people like me around the world are bored to their core. Yes, my shelves...
The European Commission has announced 3.3 billion euros of European Union financial support, mobilised jointly with the European Investment Bank, for the Western Balkans...
Lockdowns are gently being eased across emerging Europe, not least in Lithuania which this week started reopening cafes, bars and restaurants, albeit under very strict...
One of the few certainties to have emerged from the ongoing coronavirus pandemic is the simple fact that the most serious health crisis in a generation cannot be...
Governments across Eastern Europe and Central Asia are using the Covid-19 pandemic as an excuse to clamp down on opposition, according to a new report from Amnesty...
Serbia’s parliament met on April 28, the first session since the country declared a state of emergency on March 15. A minute of silence opened the session...
Lithuania has become one of the first countries in emerging Europe to begin the process of gradually exiting from coronavirus lockdown, and has this week started opening...
In a joint statement, the chair of the Council of Europe’s data protection Convention 108 committee, Alessandra Pierucci, and the Council of Europe’s Data Protection...
