Anamaria Dutceac Segesten is political scientist and director of Central and Eastern European Studies at Lund University. A specialist in the political use of social...
Craig Turp
Craig Turp is the editor-in-chief of Emerging Europe.
Two major reports describing the systemic torture of prisoners, together with an electoral system which falls far short of international standards, have once again...
Using tear gas and water cannon Romanian police violently put down a peaceful protest in the capital Bucharest on August 10, the largest so far in a long-running series...
When BMW announced at the beginning of August that it is to spend more than one billion euros constructing a new factory on a greenfield site close to Debrecen in...
It’s often very difficult to know what to think about Belarus. In the same week that the country launched a new crackdown on independent media and journalists...
Ratings agency Standard and Poor’s (S&P) has affirmed its long- and short-term foreign and local currency sovereign credit ratings on Albania at B+/B, with a...
The car license plate of a Romanian expatriate living in Sweden, which first came to public attention last week, now risks becoming the subject of a diplomatic incident...
Advanced economies remain the global leaders in trade logistics, finds Connecting to Compete, a new World Bank Group report. Across the board, most countries have...
The World Bank has agreed to support the Croatian government in increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of EU funding for Eastern Croatia, with the aim of catalysing...
Craig Turp takes an off-season trip to the Bulgarian ski resort of Borovets and climbs Musala, the highest mountain in the Balkans.
A Romanian living in Sweden has become the toast of his home country thanks to his rather cheeky number plate, MUIEPSD. The plate — perfectly legal in Sweden, where...
Private equity firm J.C. Flowers and Co and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) have completed the acquisition of Piraeus Bank Romania (PBR), the...
