Georgia’s government is refusing to transfer Mikheil Saakashvili, a former president now almost 50 days into a hunger strike, to a civilian hospital. The condition...
Craig Turp-Balazs
Craig Turp-Balazs is the editor of Emerging Europe.
Covid-19 hit tourism in the Western Balkans hard, but Gazmend Haxhia, boss of Landways International, one of the region’s leading tourism companies, is confident that...
Reviews of documentary film The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceaușescu, and a new history of Romania, Children of the Night. Anyone remotely familiar with recent Romanian...
Far cheaper than conventional nuclear reactors, SMRs appear to offer a perfect solution for emerging economies transitioning away from the use of fossil fuel. However...
Leaving refugees and migrants stranded at its eastern borders, where many are dying, says more about the EU than it does Belarus. There are now believed to be several...
The resignation of a reformist prime minister leaves North Macedonia facing an uncertain future. The prime minister of North Macedonia, Zoran Zaev, resigned on October...
Sustainable transformation of the economy does not slow growth: decarbonisation can boost the performance of Central and Eastern European economies, says a new report...
Record numbers of deaths and tight new restrictions finally appear to have convinced one of Europe’s most vaccine sceptic countries, Romania, to get jabbed. There...
Before Covid-19, Emerging Europe’s editor Craig Turp rarely walked anywhere. Now, he writes, its his favourite form of transportation, even in a city as ill...
Montenegro and Moldova will see emerging Europe’s highest levels of economic growth in 2021, but the outlook is positive across the region. The Vienna Institute...
During a tense debate in the European Parliament, Mateusz Morawiecki claimed the European Court of Justice was responsible for a “creeping revolution” that threatened to...
Romania’s government lost a motion of no confidence on October 5, just hours after the country recorded its highest ever number of new Covid-19 cases. Whither...
