The European Commission has announced plans to borrow 750 billion euros in order to help EU member states combat the impact of the coronavirus crisis. While the...
Craig Turp-Balazs
Craig Turp-Balazs is the editor of Emerging Europe.
Montenegro declares itself Covid-19 free, as emerging Europe reaps rewards of strict lockdown policy
On the evening of May 24, Montenegro became the second country in Europe to officially report they it is free of active Covid-19 cases. Montenegro has now joined the...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) holds enormous potential for the future of healthcare. It can reduce the burden on healthcare systems by performing tasks that can be...
Poland appears to have built its last coal-fired power plant. Late on May 19, two state-run Polish utility companies, Enea and Energa, said that they were ending their...
Slovenia last week became the first country in the EU and emerging Europe to declare the end of the coronavirus epidemic. The decision was taken on May 14 after the...
People in Belarus are voting with their feet and staying at home in order to mitigate the further spread of Covid-19. The country’s president, Alexander Lukashenko, has...
Georgia’s coastal city of Batumi is set to be one of the first destinations in the world to reopen to international tourists. Following the recommendations of the...
Bucharest’s Henri Coanda Airport (or Otopeni, as it is still almost universally known) has never been one of the most agreeable places in Romania. Undersized and...
With a couple of notable exceptions, the countries of emerging Europe remain a long way behind those in the west of the continent when it comes to protecting the human...
For many people across Europe, a commitment to healthy eating was one of the first things to be jettisoned the moment governments from Tirana to Tallinn announced strict...
I last took a flight, a two-legged trip from Tallinn to Bucharest (via Warsaw), on March 13. Friday the 13th, for what it’s worth, two months ago. It was uneventful...
Restarting travel and tourism in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic is the next headache facing governments across the emerging Europe region, particularly those in which...
