EU Council President Charles Michel this week offered membership hopefuls plenty of sweet talk, but little substance. The bakery at the Park Hotel in the Slovenian...
Craig Turp-Balazs
Craig Turp-Balazs is the editor of Emerging Europe.
The Three Seas Initiative currently lacks the political backing that would see it given the leadership and financial support it needs to gain any real momentum, but...
From August 27 to September 24, the Romanian capital Bucharest will play host to one of Europe’s most celebrated classical music festivals. The now bi-annual George...
Lesser countries with lesser leaders have previously been hamstrung by wars on their doorsteps. Moldova, blessed with a president of steely determination, has instead...
A UNESCO listing offers little defence against attacks by regimes determined to destroy priceless cultural heritage. When UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee decided in...
Emerging Europe’s editor Craig Turp revisits Budapest and finds a city steeped in history embracing modernity in the shape of two stunning new additions to its already...
Amid renewed talk of high-speed trains running from Bucharest to Budapest, the fastest way to speed up connections between Hungary and Romania would be the...
Volodymyr Zelensky travelled to NATO’s summit in Vilnius in the hope that the alliance would provide him with a clear idea of when Ukraine might become a member of the...
Emerging Europe’s editor, Craig Turp, recently travelled from Paris to Istanbul, via Budapest and Bucharest, aboard the Orient Express. He recounts the experience...
Interest in sustainability and in greener motoring in CEE is growing fast. One of the drivers of this is the region’s status as an automotive manufacturing hub...
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is slowly pushing the international media to view countries once occupied by the Soviet Union not through the prism of the Cold War, but as...
At a key summit in Vilnius in July, NATO is likely to disappoint Ukraine, and with it the rest of Central and Eastern Europe. The language will be polite, diplomatic...
