Following a game-changing decision of the Constitutional Court on March 4, 2016, Moldovan voters were keen to vote for a new, directly elected president. The idea of...
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The presidents of Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey jointly launched a new rail link on October 30, connecting the three countries and in the process creating a freight and...
Half way through its term, how economically successful has Poland’s government been?
The future of Czech policy towards the European Union became very uncertain after the country held elections on October 20-21. Not only did billionaire Andrej Babiš’s...
The clear winner of the Czech Republic’s parliamentary elections is ANO 2011, an anti-establishment political party founded by Andrej Babiš, a Slovak-born billionaire.
When, back in April 2015, I had the honour and pleasure of setting up NowoczesnaPL with Ryszard Petru and 19 other eminent individuals, we didn’t expect that Law and...
The International Monetary Fund expects the UK economy to grow slower this year and has cut its forecast from 2 per cent to 1.7 per cent. For now, the forecast for 2018...
Romanian politics has once again been thrust into turmoil by clashes within the ruling Social Democratic Party (PSD). For a party which less than a year ago comfortably...
Growing economy and increasing political stability make Bruno Balvanera, the EBRD’s director for Caucasus, Moldova & Belarus, confident that Georgia is heading in...
Poland will adopt the euro only after the reform of the eurozone has been completed and if there are strong economic arguments supporting the currency’s adoption...
The leader of Albania’s Democratic Party, Lulzim Basha, has accused the country’s new government of being “the result of drug money,” going on to say that prime minister...
Slovenia goes to the polls to elect a new president on October 22nd, and for the first time a majority of candidates are women: five, from a total of nine. The current...