Governments across the world have used the Covid-19 pandemic as a smokescreen for power grabs, clampdowns on freedoms and a pretext to ignore human rights obligations...
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Schoolchildren in Hungary and Czechia will be heading back to class, and shops will be reopening. But some feel the relaxation in Covid-19 restrictions is too early. Two...
Tens of thousands of Bosnians and Macedonians have taken up Serbia’s offer of Covid-19 vaccination. Serbia’s prime minister has defended the policy of...
The UK may no longer be a member of the EU, but to ensure that Europe does not fall further behind the United States in the healthtech sector, collaboration and...
With police often turning a blind eye to breaches of lockdown restrictions, and a halting vaccine roll-out programme, Ukraine is heading for disaster. President...
Estonia and Hungary have both been forced to reintroduce stringent lockdowns in order to halt the spread of the Covid-19 virus. Estonia will introduce a total lockdown...
Slovakia has been thrown into a political crisis over a deal to acquire Russia’s Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine that now threatens the country’s ruling coalition...
To be fully effective, all of the current Covid-19 vaccines require two doses. When comparing the region’s data with the EU average – as well as UK’s...
The EU’s central and eastern member states are increasingly looking elsewhere for Covid-19 vaccines. Hungary has become the first European Union member to approve...
The Covid-19 pandemic hit Bulgaria as its economy was performing well. Along with continued support to help households and firms weather the crisis, reforms to modernise...
Another day, another fire at a Romanian hospital: five people were killed early on January 29 in a blaze at an intensive care unit at an infectious diseases hospital in...
The shrinking of the Aral Sea has been called “one of the planet’s worst ever environmental disasters”. Is there any hope for its recovery? And is the...