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...
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With Georgia currently preparing for a parliamentary election, the political and economic practices of the country’s government – led by the ruling Georgian Dream...
The fate of the Anaklia Deep-Sea Port, a project to build an artificial deepwater port in western Georgia, has again been called into question after the country’s...
“Do you think that a staged rally dedicated to Georgia’s presidency of the Council of Europe, with thousands of state employees brought in from the regions to...
Countering different forms of corruption remains a significant challenge for Georgia, with state capture being one of the major problems to tackle, Transparency...
Since mid-November, opposition protests have been taking place in Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi. They were sparked by the Georgian parliament’s failure to amend the...
Georgia’s parliament has approved a new government led by former interior minister Giorgi Gakharia, following the resignation on September 2 of Mamuka Bakhtadze...
In a surprise move, Mamuka Bakhtadze, the prime minister of Georgia, has resigned. In a statement on Facebook, Mr Bakhtadze, who became prime minister in June of last...
The Georgian government has agreed to bring forward constitutional reform scheduled for 2024 so that the country’s next set of parliamentary elections, scheduled...
A spokesperson at Georgia’s ministry of economy and sustainable development has defended the country’s business climate following criticism from a leading...
According to the latest Forbes’ Billionaires List, there are 2,153 billionaires (in US dollars) in the world and 28 of them are from the emerging Europe region. The list...
None of emerging Europe’s 23 countries currently qualifies as a full democracy. The news comes from the latest edition of the Democracy Index, an annual report...