Money sent home by migrant workers accounts for more than a quarter of GDP in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. Remittances sent home by migrant workers, a key source of income...
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Central Europe The European Union has moved a step closer to penalising Belarus for a crisis on its border with Poland, where hundreds of migrants from the Middle East...
Central Europe Czech centrist and centre-right parties reached an agreement on forming a majority coalition government and its key agenda, the chairman of the strongest...
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Central Europe Romania’s President Klaus Iohannis nominated retired four-star army general Nicolae Ciucă as prime minister designate on Thursday, tasking him with...
Central Europe Romanian doctors sent an open letter Wednesday titled “a cry of despair” as the country’s overwhelmed and deteriorated health care system copes with a...
Three decades since declaring independence from the Soviet Union, Kazakhstan is finally about to ditch the Cyrillic alphabet. At the end of January 2021, the Kazakh...
Without immediate, substantial action, climate change is projected to have major consequences not only on the economies of Central Asia, but also for regional stability...
Gulf states have been stepping up investment in Central Asia, providing a counterbalance to Russian and Chinese influence in the region. The collapse of the Soviet Union...
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 has been a decade since Tajikistan ceded part of its territory to China in lieu of loan repayments. Is history about to repeat itself? In 2011 Tajikistan offered...
More than a few political leaders from Central and Eastern Europe have been embarrassed by the Pandora Papers leak. On October 3 the International Consortium of...