Germany’s slow recovery is dampening growth prospects for Central and Southeast European economies.
With Emerging Europe increasingly polarised between democracies and authoritarian states, it is unclear in which direction the hybrid regimes – which fall between the two camps – will go, says Freedom House.
Since Russia lost leverage in the region after invading Ukraine, many countries have sought to fill the gap. In terms of pledged capital, the Arab nations have become big players.
Despite the global "green transition," predictions of decreasing demand for fossil fuels have not yet been realized. And sanctions imposed on Russia are rewriting energy export routes.
Eurasia has 20 major petrochemical projects underway worth over $200bn to double plastics production.
Azerbaijan is exporting more gas to Europe and Europe is keen to buy it. And as its own production of oil falls slowly it is repositioning itself as a major transit route for Kazakh oil, to allow it to reach the international markets.
Chinese companies are actively investing in the Eurasian countries and have become a locomotive for change as the world becomes smaller. Now they are building ties with the multilateral development banks in the region.
Georgian Dream push for conservative votes ahead of autumn general election could endanger accession aspirations, say critics.
In 2019 the Cabinet of Ministers set up the company Saneg and transferred the ownership of 103 depleted oil fields to see if the company can squeeze a little more oil out of them, as Uzbekistan has an oil deficit and wants to reduce imports.
The working visit of President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev to Munich, to attend the Security Conference in February, was marked by significant negotiations with the managing director of the German Eastern Business Association, Michael Harms.
Countries in Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia have a lower gender gap than the global average but only Latvian women have equal legal standing with men.
Experts have voiced safety concerns over the field in the past, but such objections are now being silenced.
Campaigners want compatriots law that would apply to peoples of Russia’s Buddhist republics and minorities with Mongolic origins the world over.
All the corrupt former customs chief's one-time allies are scrambling to disavow him.
The British company Anglo Asian Mining, which mines gold, silver, and copper in Azerbaijan, has completed a preliminary assessment of the mineral resources of the Kharkhar copper deposit. The country has significant deposits of many minerals.
New World Bank report charts path to net zero energy in Emerging Europe and Central Asia, but says current ambitions are too modest.
Poor nations Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan hoping for a critical raw materials bonanza.
Russian automaker AvtoVaz is moving into Azerbaijan and in talks to set up the large-scale assembly of its famous Lada family of vehicles in the country.
Uzbekistan is not a major exporter of energy resources, unlike neighbouring Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, though it is home to quite substantial hydrocarbon resources.