Growth in the Western Balkans – Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia – declined in 2017, despite the creation of 190,000 new jobs in the...
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The last year ended with good news for Bosnia and Herzegovina. After years of political stalemate parliament finally voted in favour of a measure which will secure the...
Ahead of International Roma Day on April 8, five senior European Commission figures have issued a joint statement saying that continued failures to integrate large...
A major new study by the Open Society Institute in Bulgaria has revealed that amongst emerging European countries, Estonia has by far the highest level of media...
I’m grateful to Cambridge Analytica for reinforcing a valuable lesson: the importance of having my own code of ethics. Without this I could have been sucked into all...
Employment figures in the Western Balkans were boosted last year by the creation of 231,000 new jobs across the six countries of the region: Serbia, Montenegro...
Bulgaria, as well as non-EU member states including Albania, Bosnia and Ukraine still do not meet the requirements of the Third Energy Package for the liberalisation of...
Estonia – by quite some distance – is viewed as being the least corrupt country in emerging Europe, according to the latest Corruption Perceptions Index, published...
“Without a doubt there are still politically difficult issues and we shouldn’t hide from investors. We should be frank, open and honest about trying to resolve them, and...
Bosnia has made progress in lowering internal and external imbalances and enhancing growth potential, according to the International Monetary Fund which in February...
Natural gas transmission system operators from Albania, Bosnia, Croatia and Montenegro and Azerbaijan’s state oil company SOCAR will set up a new company to implement...
The European Commission has set out a broad strategy for what it calls “a credible enlargement perspective for the Western Balkans.” The strategy confirms the European...
In a new edition of the Open Budget Survey (OBS), which assesses budget accountability and transparency in 115 countries across the world, Georgia has emerged as Central...