One of the few certainties to have emerged from the ongoing coronavirus pandemic is the simple fact that the most serious health crisis in a generation cannot be...
Tag - Covid-19
Governments across Eastern Europe and Central Asia are using the Covid-19 pandemic as an excuse to clamp down on opposition, according to a new report from Amnesty...
A banking crisis in Azerbaijan deepened this week when four of the country’s largest banks – Atabank, AGBank, NBCBank, and Amrah Bank – were taken into...
Serbia’s parliament met on April 28, the first session since the country declared a state of emergency on March 15. A minute of silence opened the session...
Lithuania has become one of the first countries in emerging Europe to begin the process of gradually exiting from coronavirus lockdown, and has this week started opening...
In a joint statement, the chair of the Council of Europe’s data protection Convention 108 committee, Alessandra Pierucci, and the Council of Europe’s Data Protection...
With some notable exceptions, curves are beginning to flatten across emerging Europe, both in terms of the number of people infected with Covid-19 and the number of...
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...
Since the coronavirus Covid-19 first appeared at the end of last year, just one thing has spread faster than the virus itself: conspiracy theories regarding its origins...
Not content with throwing new challenges such as Covid-19 at the world, fate now appears to be replaying some of its old hits. Much of emerging Europe is facing a...
This was a week in which the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Kristalina Georgieva, called for “a global response like no other to deal with a...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved an emergency support package for Bosnia and Herzegovina to the tune of 361 million US dollars. Due to the shutdowns in...
