The Covid-19 pandemic is not just a global public health crisis. It has huge implications for democracies and fundamental rights around the world. Some governments are restricting civil liberties, freedoms, discriminating in enforcement of pandemic...
Tag - Society
Montenegro this week became the first country in the Western Balkans to formally allow same-sex civil partnerships, and the first emerging European country outside of...
Kosovo has improved on many areas of cybersecurity capacity and has gained a comprehensive understanding of existing gaps and opportunities for capacity building in...
Street art as a whole, including graffiti and murals, has exploded on the art scene worldwide. And now a new generation of artists is expressing itself through combining...
The European Union’s Agency for Fundamental Human Rights (FRA) has published its annual survey focusing on how the EU-27, North Macedonia and the UK perceive human...
Two and a half years since pollution control legislation under the Energy Community Treaty obliged Western Balkan governments to apply EU norms, new analysis from...
A referendum in October 2018 that, if successful, would have redefined the understanding of the word ‘family’ in the Romanian constitution as “a man and a woman” was...
Playwright and president, Václav Havel was widely regarded as the moral compass of modern Czechia. The recipient of numerous peace awards and accolades, his career as...
NGOs in Hungary will still have to disclose their foreign donors, the country’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán, has confirmed. “All Hungarians will know about each...
Lithuania is failing to make use of the unique opportunity given to it by being in the European Union, according to a new report looking at human rights in the country...
Just two weeks before Poland votes in a crucial presidential election on June 28, the subject of LGBT rights has become the most hotly debated subject on the campaign...
You write too much about Estonia, and it’s always complementary – a genuine ‘complaint’ from a reader of Emerging Europe. Well, throwing convention and my usual...
