Press freedom slides in eastern Europe
Press freedom has declined over the past year in the majority of countries where the EBRD invests, according to the global media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RWB). The media monitor’s annual Press Freedom Index, published last week, also showed that standards had slipped generally in many European countries which should, it claimed, be setting an example for newer democracies.
Of the EBRD’s 29 countries of operations, only nine showed…
The road to a fragile recovery
The EBRD has released its latest economic forecasts. Signs of positive growth in the third quarter suggest the recession is bottoming out in much of the EBRD region - but any upturn in 2010 is likely to be fragile and patchy.
At the start of this year, the global economic crisis was hitting central and eastern Europe with unimaginable force. Any illusion that this region was somehow immune from the “western”…
Born in ‘89? Tell us your story
In just a few weeks’ time, commemorations in the German capital will mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall. As the world reflects on the events of November 1989 that paved the way for a new era in eastern Europe, the EBRD is looking to hear the stories of people from former communist states who were born during that momentous year.
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