Georgia’s ruling party, Georgian Dream, has won a comfortable majority in a parliamentary election but the country’s opposition has cried foul, alleging that...
Tag - Covid-19
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...
As the Covid-19 pandemic and economic crisis continues to spread, the amount of money migrant workers send home is projected to decline 14 per cent globally by 2021 when...
Uzbekistan is set to implement a national innovation system as part of its aim to join the top 50 countries in the Global Innovation Index by 2030. In the 2020 edition...
Just a few days before Moldova votes in a presidential election, United Nations Moldova has published and developed a Covid-19 response and recovery plan for the...
Ingrida Šimonytė (pictured above, centre, on the campaign trail) is likely to be Lithuania’s next prime minister after her party, the Homeland Union, clearly won...
Emerging Europe’s capital markets need to collaborate to boost the attractiveness of corporate bonds
Despite local, regional, and EU-level efforts the capital markets and by extension the corporate bond markets in Central and Eastern Europe are still lagging...
The cost of the world’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic until now is currently estimated at 11 trillion US dollars, with future losses of 10 trillion US dollars in...
The Covid-19 pandemic is hitting North Macedonia hard, with lockdowns, disrupted supply chains, and a prolonged, adverse epidemiological situation darkening an already...
Emerging Europe’s digital leader Estonia, in cooperation with Finland, Ireland, Luxembourg and Poland, has teamed up with the African Union (AU) to organise a...
Czechia has reimposed a full lockdown for the next two weeks in order to combat the spread of Covid-19. All shops and small businesses have been forced to close, with...
Air pollution costs each resident of the Romanian capital Bucharest more than 3,000 euros per year, according to a new study carried out for the European Public Health...
The World Bank last week published its latest outlook for emerging Europe for Central Asia, and offered some cautious cause for optimism: not least the prospect that...