The usage and production of electric bicycles in the EU has skyrocketed since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Bulgaria and Poland are at the forefront of this recent boom. The e-bike business was one of very few to have experienced an upsurge...
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The European Union’s Next Generation EU fund, designed to help member states recover from the Covid-19 pandemic will see most CEE countries receive large amounts...
Ukraine’s recent overtures towards China are unlikely to lead to a real shift in foreign policy. On June 22, China pressured Ukraine – with threats to limit...
Our weekly digest of articles about emerging Europe published elsewhere this week, all of which caught our eye and all of which are well worth your time. Listing them...
NATO is facing new challenges throughout the Mediterranean region due, in large part, to Russia’s expanding influence. Moscow’s influence in the region has...
Another day, another “non-paper” in the Western Balkans. Hardly had the dust settled on a diplomatic spat between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Slovenia over...
There are fewer democracies in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia than at any point in the past 26 years, according to a new report from human rights watchdog...
The complicated, unique and – some would say – dysfunctional – structure of the Bosnia and Herzegovina state makes fulfilling the EU’s pre...
Just as Georgia’s latest political crisis appeared to have passed, the release of audio recordings allegedly implicating the country’s prime minister in the...
As the world continues to recover from the coronavirus pandemic, economic freedom will be more important than ever, says a new report from the Heritage Foundation. In...
Freedom in the World 2021, published by US-based research and advocacy group Freedom House, finds that fewer than a fifth of the world’s people now live in fully free...
For most, elections mean listening to or watching an election campaign, selecting the candidate on election day and waiting for the results in the evening. When thinking...
