The recent change of government in Moldova has so far proved unable to make real progress, and has pushed the country further towards Russia. Moldova’s political life...
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The most puzzling aspect of Azerbaijan’s recent elections for its National Assembly (Milli Majlis) was not the outcome. It never is. The electoral process is tightly...
The European Commission has found that rail freight operator CFR Marfa received at least 570 million euros of incompatible state aid from Romania through a debt write...
By any standards of measurement, Polish bus manufacturer Solaris had an outstanding 2019. The firm, based in Bolechowo-Osiedle, near Poznań, secured orders worth...
Five months have passed since Hungary’s opposition won an unexpected victory in Budapest’s mayoral election. Less surprising has been the way in which the...
Bringing into government expertise from the private sector and/or civil society has long been viewed by many people in emerging Europe as a way of jump starting or...
While Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky courts more foreign investment, he faces scrutiny over how a corrupt official is disrupting the country’s largest agro...
Bringing an end to the Donbas war, forging stronger defence ties within the EU and finding a definitive settlement to the Nagorno Karabakh dispute are among this year’s...
Hungary’s leader decides to go green, although critics argue that his climate plan is too little, too late. Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orbán’s much...
When Iran officially changed the name of the street where the British Embassy in Teheran is located from Winston Churchill Street to Bobby Sands Street in 1981, the...
The European Parliament this week backed an EU trade deal with Vietnam which aims to eliminate 99 per cent of all tariffs over the next decade. The deal is likely to...
While many of the countries in emerging Europe have in recent years become easier places to do business, they still lag behind in comparison with the northern and...
