Without significant improvements in gender equality, the countries of Eastern Europe are unlikely to overcome the demographic crisis they are facing, the United Nations...
Tag - Demographics
Albania and the United Kingdom are NATO allies, but relations have grown tense over the last year as the number of Albanians seeking asylum in Britain surged...
Europe’s working age population is shrinking, but some areas are worse off than others. Many of the worst affected regions are in Central and Eastern Europe...
Estonia’s parental leave system has become one of the cornerstones of the country’s entrepreneurship and improved its demographics. Estonia has long been...
A post-war economic boom will not, alone, be enough to keep a majority of Ukrainians at home. Ukrainians want security, and will not accept anything less than...
The once simple task of counting the number of people living in Romania has this year been fraught with challenges for the country’s beleaguered authorities. The...
Poland performed well in global obesity rankings until relatively recently. Today, that is no longer the case. As with other parts of the industrialised world, the...
A new report from the OECD offers a few clues as to how Estonia – and other countries in the region – can manage their falling populations. Estonia’s...
Amid challenges related to an ageing population, automation, and Europe’s relative decline, CEE’s businesses have to reinvent themselves. The German...
Falling birth rates are not an existential crisis for Central and Eastern Europe, but an opportunity
Central and Eastern Europe’s demographic decline has until now been presented by nationalist governments as an existential problem. But are policy makers looking at the...
Millions of Ukrainian pensioners are living below the poverty line – and with prices for food products and utilities constantly rising, their situation may yet get...
Ukraine has emerged as a key player in a niche but growing global market – commercial surrogacy. While the procedure has been of enormous financial benefit to many...
