The European Public Prosecutor Laura Codruţa Kövesi has been named as Emerging Europe’s Public Figure of the Year. Currently the head of the European Public Prosecutor’s...
Craig Turp-Balazs
Craig Turp-Balazs is head of insight and analysis at Reinvantage.
With some notable exceptions, curves are beginning to flatten across emerging Europe, both in terms of the number of people infected with Covid-19 and the number of...
Since the coronavirus Covid-19 first appeared at the end of last year, just one thing has spread faster than the virus itself: conspiracy theories regarding its origins...
This was a week in which the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Kristalina Georgieva, called for “a global response like no other to deal with a...
Mikheil Saakashvili, the exiled former president of Georgia, is set to return to frontline politics in Ukraine having been nominated by the country’s president...
The 2020 World Press Freedom Index, compiled by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), shows that the coming decade will be decisive for the future of journalism, with the...
Kosovo’s acting prime minister Albin Kurti (pictured above) has accused a United States envoy of being “directly involved” in toppling his government...
We can in all reasonableness expect a vaccine against Covid-19 to go into general production by the end of this year, perhaps far sooner. What we can never alas expect...
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...
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...