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Elevated no deal Brexit risk threatens CEE
Clare Nuttall in Glasgow
It was the worst defeat for any government in modern British history: MPs in the House of Com- mons voted by 432 to 202 against Theresa May’s Brexit deal just 10 weeks before the UK is due to leave the union. The result — while largely expect- ed — leaves the future both for the UK and for the remaining 27 members of the EU, not least those in Central and Southeast Europe, highly uncertain.
Uzbekistan takes the UzRoadShow to Berlin
Ben Aris in Berlin
I’ve been here before. The main hall at Berlin’s European School of Management and Technol- ogy was standing room only by the time the first speaker was introduced at the German-Uzbek Business Forum held on January 14.
This was the first event in a week of talks that cul- minated in the arrival of the new-era president of
As far as UK politics are concerned, May went
on to win the no-confidence vote on January 16, and is talking about trying to reach a cross-party consensus though there are few signs that bring- ing together the deeply divided British political class will be possible. Optimists may look to the
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There is no lack of interest in Uzbekistan's fresh attempt at wooing investors.
Uzbekistan, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, at the end of this week. In late 2016, he became the second ever president of the post-Soviet young country after former president Islam Karimov passed away. In power since before the country became independ- ent, Karimov turned the most populous Central
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