A lack of long-term solutions and safe routes to Europe has once again created a humanitarian crisis on the EU’s borders. A number of leading human rights...
Craig Turp-Balazs
Craig Turp-Balazs is the editor of Emerging Europe.
While we all want an end to Covid-19, the ability to travel again and to meet with friends and colleagues, here are five things specific to emerging Europe that we would...
The UK is unlikely to ever rejoin the EU, but there are alternatives to full membership that Britain’s progressives should now explore. In the meantime, we need to...
With the exception of Belarus, all countries in emerging Europe and Central Asia should return to growth in 2021, but the World Bank’s latest forecasts come with...
You may not want to look back too carefully at a year many of us will no doubt wish to forget, but we have put together a recap of 2020 in the emerging Europe region...
For those of us who claim to have “spotted her early”, 2020 was the year Kosovo’s finest and probably emerging Europe’s biggest ever pop star Dua...
Women are hard to find in the new Romanian government: just one of the 21 cabinet ministers in Florin Cîțu’s executive is female. Erstwhile finance chief...
Something smells fishy in Brussels, and it’s not just the cod, mackerel and herring that are ostensibly holding up Brexit trade talks. Could the real blockage be a...
Despite again tweaking Hungary’s electoral system to favour his Fidesz party, a united opposition means that Viktor Orbán will face the biggest threat to his...
Almost 40 years since it was published, there is no more faithful description of communist-era Central and Eastern Europe than Malcolm Bradbury’s brilliant Rates...
The shift to online learning caused by Covid-19 has been a boon for edtech start-ups such as Poland’s Brainly, which has just closed a major new funding round that...
Georgia’s mountains define the Caucasus country and offer a spectacular array of natural wealth. A number of international organisations are now working to ensure...
