Covid-19 has demonstrated that health care systems across the world – not least in Central and Eastern Europe – were broken. How can we take on board the experience of the past 18 months and make them more resilient? Strengthening...
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In some places the biggest headache associated with air travel is often not Covid tests or vaccine passports, but the hassle of getting to and from the airport. How does...
The long-overdue criminalisation of domestic violence in 2017 was a major step in the right direction for Ukraine. Progress since then however has been limited. Ukraine...
Despite initially handling the Covid-19 pandemic successfully, Georgia is now seeing more per capita cases and deaths than any country in the world. During the first few...
Central Europe Polish President Andrzej Duda has imposed a state of emergency in parts of two regions bordering Belarus amid an influx of migrants from the former Soviet...
With great fanfare the European Union announced on August 31 that 70 per cent of the bloc’s adults were now fully vaccinated against Covid-19. But the overall...
Romania on August 30 became the latest country to offer financial incentives to individuals who get vaccinated against Covid-19. First it was meatballs, now it’s...
Central Europe Romania has become the new route for Afghan migrants and refugees headed to Western Europe after Hungary and Croatia tightened their borders, Spanish...
Ukraine’s recent overtures towards China are unlikely to lead to a real shift in foreign policy. On June 22, China pressured Ukraine – with threats to limit...
Central Europe Bulgaria’s largest political grouping gave up efforts to lead a minority government on Tuesday following a razor-thin victory in last month’s...
The work of former EBRD chief Sir Suma Chakrabarti and groundbreaking scientist Katalin Karikó is recognised as part of Emerging Europe’s latest awards programme...
Covid-19 vaccination rates in many parts of Central and Eastern Europe remain low. Not only does this make those countries vulnerable to new waves of the pandemic, it...
