“A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.” The words of Seneca, a Roman philosopher and writer of tragedies, who no doubt...
Opinion
The Moldovan leu turns 25 on November 29. This is no mean feat for a young currency which has so far had to exist in a very challenging geo-political context. The bold...
According to the 2018 Ageing Report, the EU will ‘turn increasingly grey’ in the coming decades. The latest projections reveal dramatic changes in the population...
Viktor Orbán’s crushing victory in April’s parliamentary elections left half of Hungary devastated. Having secured his third consecutive supermajority, the Hungarian PM...
Romania does not generally make the international news, and when it does, it’s for all the wrong reasons. Last week we learnt about a letter written by Rudy Giuliani, in...
Throughout the last 20 years, pension reform has been a crucial topic of public debate in the Czech Republic. Since the major overhaul of the pension systems in 1995...
The concept of civil society is a product imported into Latvia in the 1990s. It was rooted into the idea that democracy could be stabilised by promoting people’s self...
When I said in my interviews two years ago that the Law and Justice party (PiS) was a threat to democracy, many journalists took the position of symmetry and, in a...
When people think of Kosovo, they probably remember the war-torn country in the late 1990s. What they probably don’t think of is the fact that there is no place in...
Where can you feel the pulse of central and eastern Europe (CEE)? The answer is easy, you just have to set three days of the first week of September aside to attend the...
In the US and Western Europe, private debt has become mainstream and an investment class of its own. In Romania, as well as the majority of CEE countries, it is still a...
Detailing the challenges Albania faces in its EU accession process may seem like an insurmountable task for a short opinion piece, but in considering some often...
We were super excited when the deal was signed. It was months of hard work and finally we’d got it done. This was going to be a big change to what had gone before. The...