Back in 2018, many saw Bulgaria’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union as a means of providing impetus to the European integration of the Western Balkans. The...
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Covid-19 could have seen Europe’s start-ups retreat into their shells, to wait for the worst to pass. Instead, many have been spurred on to achieve new milestones...
Our weekly digest of articles about emerging Europe published elsewhere this week, all of which caught our eye and all of which are well worth your time. Listing them...
A free and independent press is a must for a free society, and perhaps that’s the biggest lesson to be learned in the post-Donald Trump world of fake news and...
Forget Lapland, forget the North Pole. If Santa Claus really wants to visit every home in the world in one night, he should start his journey in Kyrgyzstan. We take a...
Almost 40 years since it was published, there is no more faithful description of communist-era Central and Eastern Europe than Malcolm Bradbury’s brilliant Rates...
An app designed to help prevent the spread of Covid-19 is providing cause for great concern in authoritarian Azerbaijan. Authorities in Azerbaijan have decided to...
Europe has changed over the past decade. Joe Biden needs to take this into account and show greater awareness of where the European Union and its aspiring members stand...
A new law that prohibits adoption by non-married couples and a female minister telling women that they shouldn’t expect to earn as much as men. It’s been...
The shift to online learning caused by Covid-19 has been a boon for edtech start-ups such as Poland’s Brainly, which has just closed a major new funding round that...
Ukraine is using a new tool, developed with the World Health Organisation, to gauge the impact of Covid-19 prevention measures across various regions. A new monitoring...
Up to 660 million euros of new lending is set to be made available to the SMEs in the Baltic states thanks to a deal between the EIB Group and local financial services...