After a stellar 2019, 2020 was for Ukraine a year of dashed hopes. 2021 will see the country return to a variation on the pre-2019 norm: balancing between reform and vested interests. Persistent financing difficulties should produce enough pressure...
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You may not want to look back too carefully at a year many of us will no doubt wish to forget, but we have put together a recap of 2020 in the emerging Europe region...
Ukraine has pursued reform in many sectors over the past 12 months, but recent decisions by the Constitutional Court have called into question the country’s...
Central Europe Slovakia’s Covid-19 testing and quarantine scheme has helped cut the proportion of infections by more than half, Prime Minister Igor Matovič said on...
Transparency International has called on the president and parliamentarians of Ukraine to immediately introduce and pass new legislation that will reinstate...
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, has called on the European Union to offer the country a “clear plan” and that the goal of membership remains...
The European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrel, last week paid a long-anticipated visit to Kyiv, to meet with Ukrainian...
It is no secret that Central and Eastern Europe is facing a depopulation crisis. Recent studies by the UN and scientific research groups, such as this Lancet study, have...
Central Europe Poland will return to economic growth in 2021, around 4-4.5 per cent, Finance Minister Tadeusz Koscinski said on Thursday. The ministry is in no rush to...
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...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved an 18-month Stand-by Arrangement for Ukraine worth five billion US dollars. The approval means Ukraine can receive an...
Ukraine’s adoption, on May 13, of a law to safeguard its clean-up of the banking sector, unlocked a large IMF loan. It was about time: investors had fled the country en...
