Several countries in emerging Europe, all in close proximity to Russia, maintain a system of mandatory military service for young men. They argue that conscription is the only way to protect their sovereignty from potential Russian aggression. But...
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The toxic, far-right Conservative People’s party (EKRE) no longer forms part of Estonia’s government. Repairing the damage it has done to the country’s reputation...
A corruption scandal involving his Centre party has forced the Estonian prime minister, Jüri Ratas, to resign. The biggest losers, however, could be the far-right EKRE...
Central Europe Poland and Hungary should ask the European Union’s top court to assess the link between access to EU money and observing the rule of law, instead of...
Emerging Europe’s digital leader Estonia, in cooperation with Finland, Ireland, Luxembourg and Poland, has teamed up with the African Union (AU) to organise a...
The United States has agreed to pledge up to one billion euros to the Three Seas Initiative (3SI), Keith Krach, the US administration’s Undersecretary for Economic...
You write too much about Estonia, and it’s always complementary – a genuine ‘complaint’ from a reader of Emerging Europe. Well, throwing convention and my usual...
With over three billion people across the globe now in lockdown due to Covid-19, the world’s largest hackathon, The Global Hack, begins today, running until April 12...
We started the year with a bang, proclaiming Romania, then led by prime minister Viorica Dancila, unready to take on the presidency of the Council of the European Union...
So frequently are bold, game-changing Estonian start-ups raising funding these days that the emergence of yet another success story from the country’s capital...
Ukraine has a “substantive interest” in joining the Three Seas Initiative (TSI), a regional cooperation format of 12 Central and Eastern European states...
More funds have been provided for the Western Balkans in the European Union’s 2020 budget, agreed on November 18 between the Council of the EU and the European...