The Civil Contract party of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has won a landslide victory in a parliamentary election. Nikol Pashinyan’s gamble appears to...
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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...
Central Europe Romania’s President Klaus Iohannis signed a Washington-backed bill last Friday that effectively bars China and Huawei from taking part in the...
Central Europe Poland’s Łódź region has announced that the European Union’s most polluting coal plant, Bełchatów, will close by 2036 and its mines by 2038. The news is...
Emerging Europe and Central Asia are set for a modest recovery in 2021, but well below the forecast for the global economy, according to the World Bank. The global...
Central Europe The CEO of Hungarian airline Wizz Air criticised European governments on Wednesday for barring flights over Belarus in response to the forced landing of a...
Azerbaijan’s plans to renovate and reconstruct the historical city of Shusha are under fire from both Armenians – concerned about cultural erasure – and from...
Wanted for questioning by the FBI over his links to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, dealings with Azerbaijan may in fact be the Achilles heel of the UK’s...
Armenia is due to hold a snap parliamentary election later this month, and foreign policy will be a key issue given the country’s noticeable lack of true allies...
Central Europe In a preview of the priorities of Slovenia’s upcoming presidency of the Council of the EU, which begins on July 1, Prime Minister Janez Janša on Wednesday...
Recent political upheaval has so far done little harm to Georgia’s reputation as a great place to do business. But ongoing disputes with foreign investors may change...
Throughout the 1990s, the five nations sharing the Caspian Sea unanimously opposed the militarisation of what is the largest inland body of water in the world. However...
