Hungarian women who have four children or more will be exempt from income tax for life, the country’s prime minister Viktor Orbán has announced Sunday in a move to...
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If Poland were to hold parliamentary elections in the coming days, the new progressive party of Robert Biedroń would have reason to be pleased. Just a few days after the...
Between February 6 and 5 April 1989, round-table discussions were held in the Polish capital Warsaw between the ruling communists and the Solidarity opposition movement...
Two emerging Europe countries, Hungary and Serbia, have been downgraded from ‘free’ to ‘partly free’ in the latest edition of the Freedom of the...
Robert Biedroń, the former mayor of Słupsk and Poland’s first openly gay politician, has launched a progressive, pro-EU party, called Wiosna (Spring), which aims to...
Since the 2014 change of government in Ukraine driven by the country’s pro-EU aspirations, and Russia’s subsequent war on the country, the state of affairs in Ukraine...
The European Commission has hailed Georgia’s strong commitment to political association to and economic integration with the EU, and substantial progress in...
Polish daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza has reported that lawyers acting for Austrian businessman Gerald Birgfellner have accused Jarosław Kaczyński, the leader of...
After an intense 2018, Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe (CESEE) is set for a more difficult 2019, the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw)...
A selection of articles about emerging Europe published elsewhere this week, all of which are well worth your time. The US has invested a lot of political capital in...
A Moldovan NGO, Women for Contemporary Society, has called on the country’s political parties to make the upcoming general election – scheduled for February 24 –...
Poland’s most popular and charismatic left-wing politician’s new initiative has a good chance of achieving short-term success in this year’s elections. But the grouping...
The owner and chief presenter of the Czech Republic’s most controversial television channel, Jaromír Soukup, has said that he has founded own political party, just...