Brussels is spending billions to route Asian trade around Russia and a war-torn Iran. Much of the cargo still takes the Russian road anyway. Kazakh President Kassym...
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New UNFPA data suggests young people in Eastern Europe and Central Asia have not given up on children, but life keeps getting in the way. Young people across Eastern...
Governments in Europe and Central Asia are spending heavily on steering their economies. They are mostly pointing in the wrong direction. The World Bank rarely minces...
A new World Bank report reveals that Eastern Europe and Central Asia is trading 45 per cent below potential. The reshoring bonanza was supposed to be Central and Eastern...
A new study suggests the South Caucasus’s banking transformation has less to do with who’s winning now than who might win tomorrow. The South Caucasus has...
Entrenched corruption and weakening democratic institutions in the region can frequently be attributed to the dismantling of critical checks and balances. Extensive...
A major new report from Emerging Europe suggests that governments and businesses should embrace technology-driven solutions to drive reinvention to ensure that no...
Armenia must heavily invest in education, media literacy, and public awareness to build a society capable of discerning and resisting manipulative narratives. Armenia’s...
Astana has struck a happy medium between neither antagonising nor warming up to an increasingly belligerent Moscow, while simultaneously cultivating stronger commercial...
Movements like Holy Struggle highlight the Armenian public’s deep frustration with the status quo but also underscore the limitations of relying on charismatic leaders...
From Ukraine’s ongoing resilience in the face of Russia’s brutal aggression to rigged elections in Georgia, political stalemate in Bulgaria, and the shooting of...
As the recent ousting of Syrian dictator Bashar Al-Assad proves, no autocracy is permanent—and that includes the regime of Azeri President Ilham Aliyev. In late...
Data show a significant slowdown in new foreign greenfield investment in most countries of the region: only Moldova has seen an increase. International investors are...