Central Europe Poland’s Łódź region has announced that the European Union’s most polluting coal plant, Bełchatów, will close by 2036 and its mines by 2038. The news is...
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A snap parliamentary election in Bulgaria, set to be held in July, is likely to be as inconclusive as April’s ballot. Unless the country’s largest parties...
The South Caucasus region has the opportunity to become one of Eurasia’s most important transport corridors. The current world situation has been dramatically...
Belarus may have a puritanical president whose increasingly repressive regime tolerates little dissent, but the gamblers who throng from neighbouring countries to its...
Joe Biden’s recent decision to recognise the Armenian genocide has been welcomed by Armenian communities around the world. But what does it imply for the future of US...
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...
Turkmenistan’s president, Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, has become a figure of fun across the world thanks to his idiosyncratic, often surreal public appearances...
Russia shows no sign of pulling of its armed forces away from Ukraine’s borders, but while most analysts believe that its manoeuvring is no more than sabre...
Turkey has withdrawn from the Istanbul Convention, which seeks to prevent violence against women, including domestic violence, and bring an end to legal impunity for...
Regional actors need to work together to make the most of the potential for greater trade connectivity between Europe and wider Central Asia via the Black Sea and the...
Turkey has led international condemnation of Kosovo’s decision to open an embassy in Jerusalem. For the Balkan state, however, Israeli recognition of its...
Writing on the eve of the Covid-19 pandemic, Nobel Prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk quipped that my fellow Istanbulites treat their streets as if they were their own...