A major new seizure of illegal cigarettes highlights the scale of emerging Europe’s clandestine tobacco trade. Law enforcement authorities seized 37 million...
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Markets are increasingly uneasy at Polish and Hungarian intransigence over a mechanism that will tie EU funding to respect for the rule of law, a row that threatens to...
The purchase of a large independent publisher by a state-run company raises new concerns over media freedom in Poland. Poland’s state-controlled oil refiner PKN Orlen...
The world can look forward to four years of measured, hands-on diplomacy. I encountered Senator Joe Biden for the first time at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
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...
Sales of smartphones in Central Europe picked up in the third quarter of 2020, but the industry may not be out of the woods just yet. The smartphone market in Central...
Shadowy spending of pandemic funds could dash EU hopes for a green recovery, says a new report. European Union member states in Central and Eastern Europe have provided...
The Polish government’s war with both Brussels and a significant part of the Polish population over the rule of law is against the country’s national interests. On...
Even if the EU introduces a ban on visiting ski resorts to prevent the further spread of Covid-19, many of emerging Europe’s best winter sports destinations, which...
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...
Internet memes have become an integral part of contemporary online culture and some of the most common social media approaches to commenting on current events and issues...
Media freedom in Europe is on the decline, according to the European Parliament. The European Parliament this week expressed its “deeply concern” about the...
