Europe has long faced the problems associated with shrinking populations, with some nations, particularly in Eastern Europe, ...

The European Union (EU) countries in Central and Eastern Europe (MOE countries) are: Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania (joined the EU in 2004) and ...

When I first ventured into Eastern Europe aged 19, it was 1998 and the Iron Curtain had collapsed a few years earlier. The frugal budget my five friends and I took on our month-long Interrail ...

Prague, Czechoslovakia, May 9, 1945: A crowd cheering the arrival of Soviet troops in a tank. As the Allied forces moved in from the West to secure a German defeat in World War Two, the Soviet ...

A decade after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in late 1991, some transition economies are performing far better than others. A recent World Bank study finds that poor incentives for the creation ...

Notably, differing opinions from Eastern European countries are particularly evident. For a long time, the differences between Eastern and Western European countries in terms of economy, society, ...