The more we know about the past, the better we can prepare for the future. The 2008 financial crisis provides important lessons for policymakers planning the COVID-19...
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With 672.5 billion euros at stake, decisions taken behind closed doors could hinder an efficient green recovery in Central and Eastern Europe, says the World Wildlife...
A week after Emerging Europe called for the European Union to make Covid-19 vaccines available to Eastern Partnership countries, 13 EU foreign ministers have done the...
Crematoria in Czechia are struggling to cope as Covid-19 infection rates and deaths climb to troubling levels. Czechia recorded 17,278 new cases of Covid-19 on January...
With the exception of Belarus, all countries in emerging Europe and Central Asia should return to growth in 2021, but the World Bank’s latest forecasts come with...
Kazakhstan has formally abolished the death penalty, making permanent a nearly 20-year freeze on capital punishment in the country. The move leaves Belarus and...
The Warsaw Stock Exchange’s NewConnect market passed several impressive milestones in 2020, despite a year of pandemic and economic turmoil, proving that capital markets...
With a peace deal now in place in Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan has shifted its focus to the future. Following the historic peace agreement between Azerbaijan, Russia...
An aura of perilous volatility overshadows Romania following its recent parliamentary election – but the results represent a unique chance for the country. A potent...
Women are hard to find in the new Romanian government: just one of the 21 cabinet ministers in Florin Cîțu’s executive is female. Erstwhile finance chief...
Tajikistan needs to unleash its pent-up investment potential to ensure it recovers from Covid-19. The Covid-19 pandemic has had significant adverse impacts on...
Covid-19 has allowed governments with authoritarian tendencies to increase their control over the internet. The latest Freedom on the Net report, published by human...