Central Europe State-owned PKN Orlen, Poland’s largest oil refiner and petrol retailer, this week agreed to sell a number of assets belonging to fellow Polish refiner and retailer Lotos Group in order to meet EU conditions for the merger of the two...
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Central Europe Bulgaria’s new prime minister redoubled the government’s commitment to adopt the euro in two years in the face of fragile support among voters battered by...
While the world as a whole wants to see an end to the Covid-19 pandemic, here are five things specific to Central and Eastern Europe, from change in Belarus to more...
Apocalyptic headlines have this week warned of the imminent descent of Bosnia and Herzegovina into a new war. That outcome remains unlikely, but there’s little...
Bosnia and Herzegovina is, in many respects, a unique country. Its political system has often been called one of the most complicated in the world. So how does it all...
The Non-Aligned Movement is alive and kicking and has just celebrated its 60th anniversary. But what role does it now play? And why is Russia taking an interest? Sixty...
A controversial move by the outgoing High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Valentin Inzko, which bans the denial of genocide in the country, has triggered yet...
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...
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...
Ratko Mladić, the so-called Butcher of the Balkans, will spend the rest of his life in prison following a failed appeal against his sentence. The appeals chamber of the...
Redrawing borders in the Western Balkans usually means war, which makes a recent comment by Slovenia’s president somewhat troublesome. A diplomatic row has broken...
The complicated, unique and – some would say – dysfunctional – structure of the Bosnia and Herzegovina state makes fulfilling the EU’s pre...
