Throughout Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia, the Covid-19 pandemic has compounded existing democratic flaws, including weak checks and balances, persistent...
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News last week that the Serbian capital Belgrade might be about to end its century-long wait for a metro line got us thinking about some of the many other underground...
Corruption is undermining health care systems and contributing to democratic backsliding amid the Covid-19 pandemic, according to Transparency International. Persistent...
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...
Croatia and North Macedonia, as well as Czechia, Lithuania and Poland, are amongst the few countries in Europe to have legalised the use of marijuana for medical...
Bidzina Ivanishvili, the head of Georgia’s ruling party and the country’s richest person, has said that he is quitting politics. But will he? This, after all, is...
Emerging Europe is a region where religion, politics and history have long been inseparable. To visit just a few of its many wonderful churches is to take a short course...
While we all want an end to Covid-19, the ability to travel again and to meet with friends and colleagues, here are five things specific to emerging Europe that we would...
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...
Emerging Europe offers an abundance of opportunities for winter tourism. However, as many of the winter destinations in the region have grown in popularity, so have...
You may not want to look back too carefully at a year many of us will no doubt wish to forget, but we have put together a recap of 2020 in the emerging Europe region...
One of the world’s most renowned classical pianists and a UNESCO artist for peace, Elisso Bolkvadze is preparing for a new role, as an MP with a vision for the role of...