The European Commission has announced 3.3 billion euros of European Union financial support, mobilised jointly with the European Investment Bank, for the Western Balkans...
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The European Public Prosecutor Laura Codruţa Kövesi has been named as Emerging Europe’s Public Figure of the Year. Currently the head of the European Public Prosecutor’s...
European Commission launches new infringement procedure against Poland while election row rumbles on
The European Commission has launched new infringement procedures against Poland over what it sees as the continued erosion of the rule of law in the country...
Governments across Eastern Europe and Central Asia are using the Covid-19 pandemic as an excuse to clamp down on opposition, according to a new report from Amnesty...
A banking crisis in Azerbaijan deepened this week when four of the country’s largest banks – Atabank, AGBank, NBCBank, and Amrah Bank – were taken into...
Serbia’s parliament met on April 28, the first session since the country declared a state of emergency on March 15. A minute of silence opened the session...
On the day that Kosovo marked its National Day of Missing Persons, the EU Rule of Law Mission (EULEX) in the country has paid tribute to everyone still missing since the...
Since the coronavirus Covid-19 first appeared at the end of last year, just one thing has spread faster than the virus itself: conspiracy theories regarding its origins...
Of the many recent regional cooperation initiatives in the Western Balkans the creation of a so-called Mini-Schengen zone has proven to be the most controversial. The...
This was a week in which the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Kristalina Georgieva, called for “a global response like no other to deal with a...
Mikheil Saakashvili, the exiled former president of Georgia, is set to return to frontline politics in Ukraine having been nominated by the country’s president...
Economies across emerging Europe are bracing for a sharp fall in remittances from foreign workers, with remittances to Europe and Central Asia projected to decline by...