A selection of articles about emerging Europe published elsewhere this week, all of which caught our eye and all of which are well worth your time. Listing them here does not necessarily mean that we agree with every word however, nor do they necessarily reflect Emerging Europe’s editorial policy.
Almost 25 years after the end of the Bosnian war, Bosnian citizens are trapped in a hand-to-mouth existence, with some 23 per cent estimated to be living at or below the absolute poverty line. Bosnia is close to the edge, and it needs Europe’s help, says Aleksandar Brezar in The Guardian.
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Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu’s 1978 UK state visit was far more humiliating than Donald Trump’s could ever be.
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Serbian ‘outsider artist’ Goran Stojcetovic spent the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia huddled in a basement, drawing bizarre pictures – and now he uses his talent to help others deal with their own traumas.
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A Hungarian court has ordered the arrest of the Ukrainian captain whose cruise ship collided with a pleasure boat on the Danube, capsizing the boat and killing at least seven South Korean tourists.
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What makes someone Armenian? It’s a complicated question for many Armenian Americans living in Los Angeles, whose heritage was endangered and scattered by the 1915 Armenian Genocide. But a century later, younger Armenians are working to connect with their cultural identities in new ways.
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Estonia’s cherished Song and Dance Celebration that in 2019 celebrates its 150th anniversary, will take place from July 4-7; the relay of the symbolic flame of the massive event got its start in the country’s second largest town, Tartu, on June 1.
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Free-roaming cows in Poland, whose intended slaughter had sparked a national outcry, have secured a last-minute reprieve.
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