A draft bill in Serbia that would give the green light to mass biometric surveillance but offer increased privacy protection for police has alarmed civil society. The Serb capital Belgrade has for some time been equipped with thousands of facial...
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Increasing the participation of women in the workforce would go a considerable way toward solving CEE’s labour shortage, and boost profitability, claims a new...
Recent events in Poland have highlighted the country’s need to tackle police brutality, which some analysts link to the country’s political climate. On the...
Millions of Ukrainian pensioners are living below the poverty line – and with prices for food products and utilities constantly rising, their situation may yet get...
Bulgaria grants as many as 20,000 people citizenship each year. Most are from North Macedonia, but there are also applicants from Serbia, Ukraine, Moldova, and Turkey...
European Union member states should lift all obstacles facing LGBT+ people when exercising their basic rights, MEPs decided on September 14. In a resolution on the...
Ukraine is slowly but steadily addressing animal cruelty with new legislation. Its effectiveness, however, is still patchy. Until recently the city centres of popular...
Pope Francis will arrive in Budapest on September 12, the first leg of a short tour of Hungary and Slovakia. But he’s only staying a few hours. Will he...
The long-overdue criminalisation of domestic violence in 2017 was a major step in the right direction for Ukraine. Progress since then however has been limited. Ukraine...
Georgian activists of Azeri origin are collecting signatures for a petition to amend a law governing surnames, revealing the complexities of identity in the region...
Despite initially handling the Covid-19 pandemic successfully, Georgia is now seeing more per capita cases and deaths than any country in the world. During the first few...
With great fanfare the European Union announced on August 31 that 70 per cent of the bloc’s adults were now fully vaccinated against Covid-19. But the overall...
