Investors are spooked by the National Bank of Poland’s deliberate weakening of the Polish złoty, the impact of Covid-19, and an imminent court ruling that could...
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As Belarus celebrates Freedom Day, the country’s opposition is calling for new protests against the country’s dictator, Alexander Lukashenko. The opposition...
Dozens of Armenians remain in Azerbaijani captivity following the recent fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh, with Baku refusing to recognise them as prisoners of war. The...
A writer in Poland faces a possible prison sentence for insulting the country’s president. Polish writer and journalist Jakub Żulczyk, who faces up to three years...
There has been a worrying fall in the level of trust that Serbian citizens have in the democratic process, and its ability to bring about change. Serbia’s...
The complicated, unique and – some would say – dysfunctional – structure of the Bosnia and Herzegovina state makes fulfilling the EU’s pre...
With police often turning a blind eye to breaches of lockdown restrictions, and a halting vaccine roll-out programme, Ukraine is heading for disaster. President...
Support for Bulgaria’s ruling party has been hit by months of anti-government protests, but it is likely to win a parliamentary election on April 4. Forming a...
Polish politics is dominated by the country’s largest party, Law and Justice (PiS). But short of a majority in parliament, it needs two smaller coalition partners...
The roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccine in Serbia has been a rare public policy victory for the country’s government. So why is he number of Covid-19 infections...
Eastern Europe is home to several authoritarian leaders who run repressive regimes: labeling Alexander Lukashenko as “Europe’s last dictator” is lazy, simplistic, and...
Seven years on from the outbreak of hostilities in the east of Ukraine, a once-economically vibrant region is mired in economic stagnation, with little prospect of...
