Freedom in the World 2021, published by US-based research and advocacy group Freedom House, finds that fewer than a fifth of the world’s people now live in fully free...
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Throughout the communist period, besides the countries now referred to as emerging Europe, there used to be another state – the German Democratic Republic, more widely...
A major new report from Emerging Europe reveals the most competitive IT sectors in the region. Poland is home to the most competitive IT sector of all 23 countries of...
Czechia will take Poland to the European Court of Justice for illegal mining activities close to the border between the two countries. It is the first time in EU history...
Emerging Europe has been crunching the numbers to see if the countries of Central and Eastern Europe really are as ‘low tax’ as they sometimes claim. The...
As post-Brexit Britain forges a new global strategy, it can continue to view the four countries of the Visegrád Group an important pillar of its European foreign...
Croatia is set to see the highest level of growth among emerging Europe’s 11 EU members in 2021, even if the country’s crucial travel and tourism industry...
There is a noticeable disconnect between the dire warnings emanating from Lithuania and the EU’s own tone in discussing its engagement with Minsk on a newly minted...
A landmark legal case which was brought this week before the European Court of Justice has highlighted the plight of same-sex parents across Central and Eastern Europe...
Three emerging Europe states – Czechia, Latvia and Lithuania – have been named among the world’s top performers in terms of regulatory best practice...
Minimum wages are increasing faster in emerging Europe than anywhere else in the European Union. When the cost of living is taken into consideration, a minimum wage in...
The EU’s central and eastern member states are increasingly looking elsewhere for Covid-19 vaccines. Hungary has become the first European Union member to approve...
Throughout Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia, the Covid-19 pandemic has compounded existing democratic flaws, including weak checks and balances, persistent...