Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, is preparing to radically reconstruct its railway station, and this week called on architects from around the world to submit...
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Serbian pop star Doris produces music that is a deeply idiosyncratic take on pop and rhythm and blues, with a nod to the 1980s and a Yugoslavia that never ended, and...
Is Bulgaria really interested in helping the European Union fight against the theft and misappropriation of EU funds? Its nominations for the office of EU chief...
On March 4, the Heritage Foundation published its annual Index of Economic Freedom. In the emerging Europe region, Estonia and Georgia continue to lead the way. Most...
Environmental groups have welcomed Hungary’s move to exit coal by 2025, but have reservations over its plans for a gas-fired power plant. Hungary announced this...
As the world continues to recover from the coronavirus pandemic, economic freedom will be more important than ever, says a new report from the Heritage Foundation. In...
Freedom in the World 2021, published by US-based research and advocacy group Freedom House, finds that fewer than a fifth of the world’s people now live in fully free...
A Polish law ostensibly aimed at curbing the power of major social networks to unilaterally remove content they see as problematic may not be what it at first seems. At...
The shaky conviction of a far-right activist in Ukraine has led to accusations that the country is targeting nationalists. Far more likely is that the country’s...
Across the globe, countries with a wealth of natural resources are broadly authoritarian and corrupt. Central Asia is no exception. The Caspian Sea region is one of the...
Slovakia has been thrown into a political crisis over a deal to acquire Russia’s Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine that now threatens the country’s ruling coalition...
Despite vocal support for the Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, the international community has so far failed to ensure the re-run of a clearly rigged...