The European Parliament has confirmed Ursula von der Leyen, a close ally of German chancellor Angela Merkel, as president of the next European Commission. The Christian democrat, who will be the commission’s first female president, has outlined a...
Tag - North Macedonia
North Macedonia expects to become a member of NATO by the end of this year and hopes to get a date for the start of European Union (EU) accession talks in October...
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...
Bulgaria’s government has agreed a deal with the United States to buy eight new Lockheed Martin F-16 fighters, Reuters has reported. The fighters will cost 1.256 billion...
There is an elephant in the room which is the size of the European Union itself: EU member states are no longer committed to enlargement. To them, the Western Balkans...
Latvia now has the fastest broadband internet speeds in emerging Europe. According to the latest Worldwide Broadband Speed League produced by Cable.co.uk, which compares...
The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has ranked Belarus and Ukraine among the worst countries in Europe which to work inits latest Global Rights index. The...
At a time when Albania was expected to make significant progress in its accession talks with the European Union, some member states are unwilling to support negotiations...
The Czech Republic continues to dominate emerging Europe in terms of offering visa-free travel to third countries. According to the latest edition of the Henley Passport...
A court in Budapest has rejected an extradition request from North Macedonia concerning its former prime minister Nikola Gruevski, who fled the country in November and...
A major new study of the region’s banks, the SeeNews Top100, has named Romania’s Banca Transilvania as the largest bank in southeastern Europe, with total assets...
Zsuzsanna Hargitai, director for the Western Balkans at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has said that the countries of the region will need...
