How quickly things change. Less than two months ago most of the countries of Central, Eastern and South East Europe were being hailed for the exemplary way in which they...
Craig Turp-Balazs
Craig Turp-Balazs is the editor of Emerging Europe.
One of the first assignments I ever undertook as reporter in Romania, back in 1999, was to visit the so-called Spring Palace in the plush Primaverii neighbourhood of the...
There’s something of a mixed picture across the emerging Europe region with regards to Covid-19. In several countries, notably in the...
Olga Tokarczuk’s Nobel Prize Lecture has been named Emerging Europe’s Artistic Achievement 2020. The Polish writer won the 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature for...
Elena Hristova Marinova, president of Musala Soft, a Sofia-headquartered software services company specialising in complex geographically distributed enterprise...
Georgia got Covid-19 right, but its tourism industry is paying the price for others getting it wrong
Few countries in emerging Europe have dealt with the Covid-19 pandemic as well as Georgia, where the total number of cases has been limited to fewer than 1,000. Just 15...
The people of Bucharest, Romania’s capital, appear to have decided that coronavirus no longer exists, or at the very least is no longer a threat. Despite face masks...
To Șoarș, a small village just over the hills from the Transylvanian city of Făgăraș, a village in which my mother-in-law worked (at the mayor’s office) for a time...
With a score of 92.11 out of a possible 100, Enterprise Estonia, the Estonian government’s agency responsible for promoting foreign direct investment into the country...
A referendum in October 2018 that, if successful, would have redefined the understanding of the word ‘family’ in the Romanian constitution as “a man and a woman” was...
Travel throughout emerging Europe is once again possible, albeit with some restrictions (you can check those at this enormously useful European Union website). Bulgaria...
Former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt and Bosnian musician Goran Bregović have been named as the recipients of Emerging Europe’s Remarkable Achievement Awards for...
