Central Europe The Czech government has backed a memorandum between the Ministry of Industry and Trade and state utility company ČEZ on the construction of a 2 billion euro electric vehicle battery plant which is expected to create at least 2,300...
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Central Europe The European Union’s top court on Thursday ruled that Poland’s system for disciplining judges undercut the bloc’s laws, part of an...
Central Europe Proposed legislative changes that would ban non-European ownership of Polish media have angered critics who say they target the US company Discovery Inc...
More regional cooperation – and around six billion US dollars – is needed for the countries of Central Asia to ensure that they can make the most of the...
Central Europe A far-reaching cyberattack in Poland this month hit over 100 email accounts used by current and former government officials, Polish counter-intelligence...
Russia’s economy has long relied on workers from Central Asia, but Covid-19 restrictions have halted seasonal migration, while millions of labourers already in...
Queues have been banned in parts of Turkmenistan as they “discredit” the country’s president. Officially, the country is Covid-19 free, reporting not a...
The founder of a network of education institutions in Kyrgyzstan disappeared in Bishkek last month. Was Turkey responsible? On the evening of May 31, 53-year-old Orhan...
Once sold as a way to promote economic growth and reverse social inequalities, microcredit in Central Asia increasingly looks more like a way to rebrand marginalised...
Cinema in Central Asia arrived with the Bolsheviks. Propaganda documentaries by the likes of Dziga Vertov, made in the early years of the Soviet era, travelled...
Central Europe Poland’s Łódź region has announced that the European Union’s most polluting coal plant, Bełchatów, will close by 2036 and its mines by 2038. The news is...
Central Europe The CEO of Hungarian airline Wizz Air criticised European governments on Wednesday for barring flights over Belarus in response to the forced landing of a...
