Stories about coronavirus-related corruption are springing up like mushrooms. In effort to stem the spread of the virus, many countries declared a national emergency...
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North Macedonia’s parliament has approved a new government led by the country’s former prime minister, Zoran Zaev, ending weeks of political uncertainty that...
Montenegro’s ruling Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) won the most seats in a parliamentary election on August 30 but may struggle to form a government...
The Covid-19 pandemic and measures to contain it have caused joblessness and domestic violence to spike in the Kyrgyz Republic, with GDP expected to sink by 10 per cent...
E-residents of Estonia, who have established 13,000 Estonian companies worldwide since the launch of the e-residency programme in December 2014, have now accumulated a...
The European Commission has agreed on a set of proposals concerning the “rules of origin” of goods in a move aimed at increasing trade between the European...
Nine countries in emerging Europe are in line to receive a combined total of 21.24 billion euros as part of the European Union’s SURE programme, designed to...
The sight of a helicopter landing in the grounds of the Belarusian presidential residence in Minsk on August 23 prompted many in the city to briefly wonder if Alexander...
Ratings agency Fitch has re-affirmed Bulgaria’s sovereign long-term foreign and local currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDRs) at ‘BBB’ with a stable outlook, but now...
The unfolding human rights crisis in Belarus caused by a vicious crackdown on peaceful protesters demonstrating against a rigged presidential election held on August 9...
Since a Russian-brokered ceasefire in 1994 brought an end to six years of often intense fighting in the majority Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh in southwestern...
Unmoved by the largest protests in the history of independent Belarus, the country’s dictator Alexander Lukashenko refuses to budge. Still supported by a majority within...
The opposition in Belarus has called for a general strike, after tens of thousands of protesters gathered in the capital Minsk for the biggest rally in the...