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Expert briefing
Publication date: 9 October 2023

Latvia’s second female prime minister leads an ideologically diverse coalition led by her centrist New Unity (JV) party, and including the left-wing Progressives (PRO) and the…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 12 October 2020

Its wider importance lies in the potential to stimulate trust in the electoral process, inspiring disillusioned populaces and weak opposition movements. Meanwhile, Serbia’s…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 11 May 2023

The global shift to a green economy coupled with the EU’s decarbonisation policy is creating new opportunities for business in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Low labour costs…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 14 June 2019

Widespread concern over the state of Czech democracy has been fuelled by European Commission auditors’ reports pointing to possible conflicts of interest between Babis’s official…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 16 May 2023

Croatia is gearing up for presidential, parliamentary and European elections in 2024. Plenkovic’s conservative Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) is looking at ways to shore up…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 28 March 2022

Pressure is rising to close so-called golden visa schemes, heavily used by Russians, that give wealthy investors the right to live, work and engage in business in the EU. The…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 25 August 2020

Before COVID-19 intervened, economic growth, rising wages, the development of high-tech sectors and Brexit were encouraging immigration. In 2019, 51% of immigrants were…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 13 November 2017

The old guard’s resistance to reform.

Expert briefing
Publication date: 6 April 2017

The governing Socialist Party (PSSh) under Prime Minister Edi Rama is expected to win again. This implies policy continuity by what has hitherto been a successful reformist…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 5 April 2018

Shortcomings in economic management.

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