Romania’s Transfăgărășan Highway is one of the most celebrated roads in Europe. Open for just a few months each year, it attracts tens of thousands of visitors...
Craig Turp-Balazs
Craig Turp-Balazs is head of insight and analysis at Reinvantage.
Țuică – a strong spirit hugely popular in Romania, essentially the national tipple – is a taste I have in more than two decades failed to acquire. More than 20...
Enough of the silliness. Neither Poland nor Hungary will ever leave the European Union. Nor, as we have explained on numerous occasions, can they be kicked out. It’s...
The work of former EBRD chief Sir Suma Chakrabarti and groundbreaking scientist Katalin Karikó is recognised as part of Emerging Europe’s latest awards programme...
Environmental groups fear that new Romanian legislation threatens Europe’s largest population of bears. When news emerged in May that a Liechtenstein prince had been...
Steadying a shaky financial ship is the immediate priority for Moldova’s new government, but long term the fight against corruption will be the measure of Natalia...
A year on from a fraudulent presidential election, two horrifying incidents have this week served to offer a timely reminder of just how far the regime of Alexander...
Open borders in the Western Balkans need infrastructure that allows everyone – tourists, citizens and businesses – to make the most of them. The subject of borders in...
A walk around the superb medieval city of Kotor in Montenegro suggests it’s business-as-usual for the country’s lucrative tourism sector. But for how long? ...
The Baltic Sea may not be as warm as the Med or the Aegean – to say the very least – but the thousands of beaches in the region are amongst the widest...
The landslide victory of a pro-European party in Moldova’s parliamentary election has been portrayed as a kick in the teeth for Russian interests in the country...
The Prince of Wales last month chose a book about rural Romania, Along the Enchanted Way, as one of five favourites featured by his wife the Duchess of Cornwall’s...