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...
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A Polish law ostensibly aimed at curbing the power of major social networks to unilaterally remove content they see as problematic may not be what it at first seems. At...
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...
Throughout the communist period, besides the countries now referred to as emerging Europe, there used to be another state – the German Democratic Republic, more widely...
Football in parts of Eastern Europe during the communist period was a hotbed of intrigue and outright corruption. It was also the home of technological innovation...
Central Europe Romania-based Black Sea Oil and Gas will begin extracting natural gas from its 600 million US dollars offshore Romanian project in November, its chief...
A major new report from Emerging Europe reveals the most competitive IT sectors in the region. Poland is home to the most competitive IT sector of all 23 countries of...
Latvia is the only country in emerging Europe with a perfect score in the World Bank’s latest Women, Business and the Law 2021 report. Countries are inching toward...
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...
Central Europe Romania’s economy jumped by a staggering 5.3 per cent in the final quarter of 2020, in large part thanks to the country’s relatively loose Covid-19...
Hungary faces a large fine unless it complies with a ruling from the European Court of Justice over the funding of NGOs. The European Union has taken an key step towards...
Loose Covid-19 containment measures in much of Central and Eastern Europe appear to have paid off for the region’s economies, with strong growth in the fourth...
