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...
Tag - Society
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...
Whenever I hear Balkan food described as drab I feel a twitch of sadness. Balkan cuisine is easily comparable to the highly evolved cuisines of Italy and France. I say...
Forestry start-up Timbeter has announced a new partnership with the government of Costa Rica. The start-up, based in Estonia, uses machine learning and artificial...
The Covid-19 pandemic has tested the resilience of our societies more than any single event since before World War II. Economies and healthcare systems have felt the...
Almost one in three women worldwide experience physical and/or sexual violence by an intimate partner or sexual violence by someone else in their lifetime. In a majority...
