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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Several CEE countries are amongst the EU’s leading arms exporters. However the nature of the arms trade varies substantially across the region. Those countries...
Central Europe Poland’s prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, said on Thursday he would call on Germany’s newly appointed Chancellor Olaf Scholz to oppose the...
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...
The best way to travel around the Balkans is to hire a car, but if you’re like me – skint but always open to meeting new people – there are only two options: bus and...
The Cyrillic alphabet has long been heavily politicised, and a nation’s use of it often leads to incorrect assumptions about its geopolitics. The Cyrillic alphabet is...
Central Europe The European Union’s highest court on Thursday advised that a mechanism linking financial disbursements to respect for the rule of law is compatible with...
Fewer people than ever are voting for communist parties in Central and Eastern Europe, but celebrating their demise may be premature. Two of emerging Europe’s most...
Falling birth rates are not an existential crisis for Central and Eastern Europe, but an opportunity
Central and Eastern Europe’s demographic decline has until now been presented by nationalist governments as an existential problem. But are policy makers looking at the...
In order to cope with the green and digital transformation, the EU member states of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) must focus on innovation. Despite solid growth...
Bulgaria’s long political crisis, which began with anti-corruption protests in 2020, finally seems to be nearing its end. At the third time of asking, Bulgarians on...
Central Europe Slovakia has imposed a strict lockdown, including a curfew, as it is struggling to curb one of the world’s worst Covid-19 outbreaks. The government...
Portugal endured Europe’s longest ever dictatorship, and yet has one of the continent’s highest Covid-19 vaccination rates. It suggests that an authoritarian...