Pressure is mounting on EU leaders to agree on the bloc’s next seven-year budget, a framework crucial for most economies in emerging Europe. A special summit on February...
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Bulgaria’s finance ministry has announced plans to launch the first regulatory technology (regtech) sandbox in the Balkans. Vladislav Goranov, the country’s...
Parliamentary elections are set to be held in Serbia this spring despite some opposition parties calling for a boycott, and weekly anti-government protests taking place...
Since a series of cases of the coronavirus (COVID-19) hit Italy at the beginning of this week, governments across emerging Europe have been racing to prepare with a...
Emerging Europe continues to show mixed results in terms of political and economic freedom and the rule of law across the region’s 23 countries. According to the latest...
Months after Montenegro passed a controversial freedom of religion law, protests against the bill continue and a row between Serbia and Montenegro shows no signs of...
The recent change of government in Moldova has so far proved unable to make real progress, and has pushed the country further towards Russia. Moldova’s political life...
In order to stimulate small business financing in the Baltic States, non-bank business lender Noviti Finance and the European Investment Fund (EIF) have signed a...
Urban tech is a relatively new sector of industry that seeks to improve living conditions by making cities more connected, livable, and efficient. For start-ups in...
The most puzzling aspect of Azerbaijan’s recent elections for its National Assembly (Milli Majlis) was not the outcome. It never is. The electoral process is tightly...
North Macedonia’s government has approved a national energy strategy that makes it the first country in the Western Balkans to consider a coal phase-out before...
The European Commission has found that rail freight operator CFR Marfa received at least 570 million euros of incompatible state aid from Romania through a debt write...