At the close of the Zagreb Summit in May, supporters of European Union enlargement, whether in the Western Balkans or within the Union itself, had reason to be happy: the EU perspective of the six, non-EU countries in Southeast Europe had once again...
Tag - Rule of law
Foreign investors in Hungary will have to apply for a special permit in order to acquire more than 10 per cent of local companies deemed strategically important. In a...
The European Public Prosecutor Laura Codruţa Kövesi has been named as Emerging Europe’s Public Figure of the Year. Currently the head of the European Public Prosecutor’s...
On the day that Kosovo marked its National Day of Missing Persons, the EU Rule of Law Mission (EULEX) in the country has paid tribute to everyone still missing since the...
Economic freedom has seen an upturn in a majority of the world’s economies over the past year, with increases registered in 124 countries, the latest edition of the...
Elections in Slovakia have long given analysts a challenge: how to define or categorise the political orientation of increasingly numerous, powerful yet atypical parties...
Emerging Europe continues to show mixed results in terms of political and economic freedom and the rule of law across the region’s 23 countries. According to the latest...
The European Court of Justice has ruled that that Polish judicial reforms aimed at lowering the retirement age of ordinary court judges were in violation of EU law...
Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic criticised by European Court of Justice over migration quotas
Advocate General of the European Court of Justice Eleanor Sharpston has once again criticised Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic for failing to comply with the EU...
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on the European Parliament to block the appointment of a former Hungarian justice minister as the new commissioner for...
The president-elect of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen has offered the Czech Republic’s Věra Jourová, currently the European Commissioner for Justice...
Anti-corruption activist and environmental campaigner Zuzana Čaputová has been sworn in as Slovakia’s first female president. “I’m not here to rule, I’m here to...
