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...
Craig Turp-Balazs
Craig Turp-Balazs is the editor of Emerging Europe.
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...
It’s become one of the great ironies of the coronavirus pandemic in emerging Europe: while the elderly are constantly being told that they are the most at-risk group...
No healthcare service in the world – regardless of how well–funded or well–run – has been able to cope fully with the added pressure brought...
So far, almost all projections regarding the financial impact of the coronavirus – from governments, think tanks, NGOs and international financial...
Over the past week the clamour for a total shutdown of all public life has become so deafening across much of Europe that governments which had been erstwhile immune to...
