Romania has banned the fishing and sale of wild sturgeon indefinitely. But according to the WWF, bans are not enough. Hot on the heels of the release of the World...
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Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) can lead to greener, more responsible investment. But standards remain irregular: creating common denominators will...
Moldova will hold a snap parliamentary election on July 11. Ever since she was elected president of Moldova in November last year, Maia Sandu has made little secret of...
There are fewer democracies in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia than at any point in the past 26 years, according to a new report from human rights watchdog...
Lithuania needs to prioritise energy efficiency and design a renewable energy strategy, a new International Energy Agency review finds. Lithuania has made impressive...
Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia have a long way to go before they can claim to have closed the gender gap, according to a new report from the World Economic...
Travel is what usually comes to mind when thinking about Montenegro, and it’s no wonder. In 2019, before the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, some three million...
Since the turbulent 1990s, Islamist extremism has refused to completely disappear from Central Asia. Over the past decade, the unending conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq...
South African conglomerate Steinhoff has chosen Warsaw over London to list shares in its Pepco discount stores, in what looks set to be Poland’s biggest IPO this year...
Serbia could be sitting on as much as 10 per cent of the world’s lithium, increasingly in demand by the manufacturers of batteries for electric cars. But getting...
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama is set to win a record third term in office after his Socialist party took around 50 per cent of the vote in a parliamentary election...
April 26 marks the 35th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. We take a look at what the various media depictions of the event get right, what they get wrong, and why...