What was behind the Georgian government’s decision last month to turn down an EU loan? Georgia’s government has pointed to a high level of economic growth...
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Ukraine’s Hungarian community has become a weapon for nationalists in both countries, and an obstacle on Ukraine’s path towards NATO membership. In November...
Kyrgyzstan’s new constitution will provide more power to the country’s president, and falls short of international standards, says Human Rights Watch. A...
Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) is broadly immune to criticism. Whether its critics come from within Poland itself or externally from the European Union...
The question of whether the 2014 Maidan Revolution in Ukraine and the 2018 Velvet Revolution in Armenia produced significant reforms, goes into determining their...
Moldova needs to ensure that it is a viable constitutional state that is governed by the rule of law while the country’s institutions should work together to ensure the...
Gianni Buquicchio, the president of the Venice Commission, an advisory body to the Council of Europe, has called on Armenia’s public institutions “to exercise restraint...
The Venice Commission, an advisory institution to the Council of Europe, the continent’s largest human rights NGO, has given the green light to the Armenian government’s...
In an unprecedented joint statement, the ambassadors from 12 key Romanian allies and partners have called on the country’s government not to pass any new emergency...
The Venice Commission has raised concerns over Hungary’s decision in December 2018 to create a system of administrative courts with their own high court and...
Romania should improve the implementation of laws and ensure funding to effectively protect the rights of persons with disabilities and protect women from violence, a...
The Hungarian Constitutional Court has rejected a petition by the Hungarian branch of human rights watchdog Amnesty International to scrap a controversial refugee law...
The Council of Europe’s Venice Commission has adopted an opinion which fiercely criticises a key provision on illegal migration in the so-called Stop Soros pack of...