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...
Across Europe and much of the world, social and public life has ground to a halt as social distancing measures and curfews are enacted to help prevent the spread of the...
Hungarian energy giant MOL has started production of hand and surface sanitisers to offer protection against the coronavirus. Both products have been in short supply in...
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...
Over the past week the clamour for a total shutdown of all public life has become so deafening across much of Europe that governments which had been erstwhile immune to...
A medical textile manufacturer such as Coramed Medizinische Produkte in the central Romanian county of Hunedoara would have attracted little attention a month ago, when...
With an increasing number of countries in Europe now locked down in order to prevent the further spread of the coronavirus epidemic, governments, institutions and the...
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...
Has there ever before been so much interest in the Belarus Premier League? Almost certainly not. Across the world, football has been one of the most high-profile...
A quick primer on what is, and what is not, digitalisation (in, at least, my humble opinion). Across emerging Europe, governments are responding to the outbreak of the...
The European Union’s response to the coronavirus outbreak was met with disappointment in the Balkans– with many seeing the measures as another blow to the Union’s...
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...
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...
With the world fighting to contain the coronavirus, which has now infected more than 200,000 people around the globe and caused more than 8,000 deaths, the Russian...
I’ve worked from home for the best part of the last decade. Over the years there are a few things I have learnt, some of which might be beneficial to those of you...
The global economy is now certain to enter recession due to the impact of the coronavirus outbreak, and parts of emerging Europe may be particularly vulnerable. With...
In extraordinary circumstances, Romania’s parliament has voted to approve the appointment of a new government, led by the Liberal party’s (PNL) Ludovic Orban...
Much of emerging Europe is now effectively closed as governments make desperate bids to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus Covid-19. While the region has not yet...
The novel coronavirus, or COVID-19 as it is officially known, has now spread across almost every country of emerging Europe. According to the Johns Hopkins Center for...
