Bulgaria’s second-largest city is one of the oldest in Europe: people have lived here since at least 6000 BCE. It is also one of the most contemporary: a pedestrian...
Craig Turp-Balazs
Craig Turp-Balazs is the editor of Emerging Europe.
The Romanian village, we are constantly told, is dying. Young people are leaving in droves, either for the the country’s towns and cities or to seek their fortune...
Albania moved ever closer to the EU. A huge step forward was taken in April when the European Commission recommended starting accession talks with both Albania and...
The first private art museum to open in Bucharest for the best part of a century brings together more than 150 works set over five levels in a superb, purpose-built...
As Romania prepares to take over the European Union’s rotating presidency on January 1, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has expressed concern about the sharp decline in...
Two Estonian-led start-ups, TransferWise and Monese, are changing the face of banking for the better.
A Christmas tree unveiled in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius this week looks nothing like the shiny decorated trees usually associated with the holiday. Wrapped in a...
MPs in Kosovo have voted unanimously in favour of a set of laws that will allow the country to create an army, as politicians representing Kosovo’s Serb minority...
With the first snows of the winter having already fallen across emerging Europe, many people’s thoughts would have already turned to winter holidays, and to skiing...
Sir David Attenborough delivered a stern speech on the opening day of the UN’s climate change summit in Katowice, Poland, warning of the impending threats global...
Adi Hadean is one of Romania's best-known, and best-loved, chefs. A former judge on the local edition of Masterchef he tells Craig Turp about the changing attitudes of...
Romania’s finance minister, Eugen Teodorovici, has come in for fierce criticism following for suggesting that the rights of Romanians to live and work abroad be...