Finding a balance between encouraging tobacco consumers to quit, and the revenue tobacco taxes bring to state budgets have long been a problem for governments across the...
Tag - Economy & Politics
Governments across emerging Europe are failing to protect their citizens from toxic air pollution, with most Europeans still breathing filthy air in their cities...
Smoking in the Western Balkans is bucking the European trend, with the number people consuming tobacco on the rise. Entrenched cultural norms, a lack of coherent...
Lithuania’s sound economic management of recent years has helped it weather the Covid-19 storm. Now the country must build a more inclusive future on those foundations...
Central Europe is struggling to contain the second wave of coronavirus, but few countries in the region have the stomach for a new lockdown. With a second wave of the...
Investors in Central and Eastern Europe remain interested in China’s Belt and Road Initiative, but are now focusing on environmentally-friendly and sustainable...
Human rights groups are concerned that the EU is allocating funds to Central Asia with little regard for human rights abuses. The European Union (EU) should set...
Two weeks before its pivotal presidential election, the United States pledged up to one billion euros to the Three Seas Initiative (3SI). What many people are now...
It’s wrong to label Moldova’s president-elect Maia Sandu as “pro-European”. Not because she isn’t, but because that alone shouldn’t...
The European Union should asses and take advantage of the new realities offered by the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process, says Fuad Isgandarov, Head of Mission of the...
Hungary and Poland find a way to block the EU’s new seven-year budget and Covid-19 recovery fund. The European Union is facing an almost unprecedented crisis after...
Without the handicap of overt assistance from neighbouring Romania, Maia Sandu is elected Moldova’s president. Maia Sandu has comfortably defeated incumbent Igor Dodon...
