Emerging Europe was set for an eventful political season this spring. A number of elections were scheduled for April and May, but the coronavirus pandemic has forced authorities across the region to postpone most of them. We looked at three...
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He’s not a bad man. Just a sad man. Living alone, with his cat. Once a charming man, so they say. The death of his twin brother in a 2010 plane crash was the turning...
After 2019’s pivotal elections for the Polish parliament, the Sejm, in which the ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) kept its hold on power, albeit slightly...
Emerging Europe is currently facing an existential crisis – depopulation. According to UN population projections for 2020-2050, 15 of the 20 countries which will...
Clichés about Central and Eastern Europe are probably as common in the press as jokes in Boris Johnson’s speeches. And although their repertoire might look repetitive to...
Grzegorz Schetyna (pictured above), leader of the Civic Platform (PO), Poland’s largest opposition party, has criticised the candidates put forward by the ruling Law and...
Final results in Poland’s parliamentary election have confirmed that the ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) has won an overall majority in the lower house of the...
With more than two thirds of votes counted, Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) looks set for a clear victory in a parliamentary election, taking around 46...
Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) looks set for a comfortable victory in the country’s parliamentary election, which takes place on October 13. Final opinion...
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...
It's time for emerging Europe – and those of us who write about the region - to draw a line under communism: the divisions of the past should not define the future. New...
With Poland’s general election now less than a month away, the country’s ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) has announced another package of proposals, with...
