It is not, by any stretch of the imagination, one of Bucharest’s most eye-pleasing buildings. It has never been open to the public, has never been on the tourist trail...
Craig Turp-Balazs
Craig Turp-Balazs is the editor of Emerging Europe.
A handful of countries began slowly lifting coronavirus restrictions this week, led, in emerging Europe, by Czechia and Poland. The relaxation of lockdown rules, which...
For years, Romanians have been the scapegoats of petty, small-minded nationalists across Europe, not least in Britain, where throughout the Brexit debate they bore the...
The benevolent mafia, they call themselves. The Skype mafia. Made rich by two huge exits (the first was in 2005, when eBay acquired 65 per cent of the company, and the...
While crime in Europe’s towns and cities has fallen considerably since the implementation of tough lockdown measures across the continent, there is evidence that...
Since Romania first instituted a nationwide lockdown on March 17 I have left my apartment on just four occasions: thrice to shop for food, and once to collect a new...
There’s just one problem with Paul Knott’s utterly fascinating and at times hilarious look back at his colourful career as a British diplomat: it comes to an end...
So many forecasts, so many assumptions, so many reports. I’ve spent the week reading them all, and have pulled together the most coherent and interesting into one...
Georgia has long been viewed as one of the most successful emerging economies in the world, a bastion of economic liberalism and a model for others to follow. In recent...
Like many small entertainment businesses all over the world, Purple Carrot Events, a Romanian outfit which hosts weekly English-language pub quizzes in the country’s...
Born as part of Hack the Crisis, an event organised by Garage48 and Accelerate Estonia as part of Estonia’s start-ups’ plan to hack the Covid-19 crisis, chatbot Suve is...
Yes, technically Britain left the European Union on January 31, shortly before the coronavirus outbreak – at that stage confined to parts of China – became a global...