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...
Craig Turp-Balazs
Craig Turp-Balazs is the editor of Emerging Europe.
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...
So far, almost all projections regarding the financial impact of the coronavirus – from governments, think tanks, NGOs and international financial...
In a sign that the European Union is continuing to conduct political business despite much of its staff and resources having been shifted to deal with the coronavirus...
Has there ever before been so much interest in the Belarus Premier League? Almost certainly not. Across the world, football has been one of the most high-profile...
A quick primer on what is, and what is not, digitalisation (in, at least, my humble opinion). Across emerging Europe, governments are responding to the outbreak of the...
“We are not a traditional government department,” says Ott Vatter, the managing director of Estonia’s enormously successful e-residency programme. One look at the...
Kosovo, one of the most polluted countries in emerging Europe, could be about to pivot away from a reliance on coal-fired power stations. Earlier this week, Contour...
I’ve worked from home for the best part of the last decade. Over the years there are a few things I have learnt, some of which might be beneficial to those of you...
In extraordinary circumstances, Romania’s parliament has voted to approve the appointment of a new government, led by the Liberal party’s (PNL) Ludovic Orban. The...
