Lithuania is set to increase defence spending to 1.9 billion US dollars by 2026, a new report reveals. The threat of Russian hostility and ongoing military activity on...
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Central Europe Bulgaria’s parliament this week formally voted to elect Kiril Petkov (pictured above) as the country’s next prime minister, ending a months-long...
Three topics: Belarus, Russia, and Covid-19 dominated the EU’s Eastern Partnership summit in Brussels. But only two made it to the joint declaration released at...
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...
As a new, potentially China-sceptic government takes office in Germany, Beijing continues to lose friends in Central and Eastern Europe. Slovakia has joined Czechia...
Economies in emerging Europe – and further afield – will now have a further option to finance important and much needed investment in infrastructure. The...
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...
On the environment and protecting our planet’s future, governments are better off sharing knowledge and collaborating on sustainable solutions. Long before COP26 drew to...
With the EU increasingly keen to compete with Asia and North America in the semiconductor industry, essential for the production of computers and automobiles, CEE needs...
Central Europe Czech centrist and centre-right parties reached an agreement on forming a majority coalition government and its key agenda, the chairman of the strongest...
Apocalyptic headlines have this week warned of the imminent descent of Bosnia and Herzegovina into a new war. That outcome remains unlikely, but there’s little...
Belgrade is finally getting a metro, but not everyone in the city is happy. A common joke about the metro in Belgrade pays homage to the famous Samuel Beckett...
