Just days after a carefully staged-managed All-Belarusian People’s Assembly, convened as a show of support for the country’s president, Alexander Lukashenko, Belarus has...
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Just as Poland calls for the protection of free speech, three Polish women face trial – and the risk of up to two years in prison – for blasphemy. A court in...
A new law that prohibits adoption by non-married couples and a female minister telling women that they shouldn’t expect to earn as much as men. It’s been...
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...
Human rights groups are concerned that the EU is allocating funds to Central Asia with little regard for human rights abuses. The European Union (EU) should set...
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...
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...
Azerbaijani authorities are abusing restrictions imposed to slow the spread of Covid-19 to arrest opposition activists and silence government critics, Human Rights Watch...
One of the first acts of Hungary’s government following last week’s power grab that saw Prime Minister Viktor Orbán handed wide and far-reaching powers with...
A pattern is beginning to emerge across the central, southern and eastern parts of Europe, where those countries – such as Albania, Bulgaria, Georgia, Hungary and...
Armenia’s prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan, confidently suggested last week that when the country’s national bank issues its final figures for 2019, growth in the...
Croatia set to assume EU’s rotating presidency at a difficult time for both the country and the bloc
The first week of 2020 is set to be a busy one for Croatia. On January 1, the country assumes the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union, while on...