International Women’s Day, March 8, is a public holiday in some countries, an occasion for men to offer women flowers in others, and largely ignored elsewhere. In...
Craig Turp-Balazs
Craig Turp-Balazs is the editor of Emerging Europe.
Romania’s justice ministry has opened a new investigation into the conduct of the country’s former anti-corruption chief, Laura Codruța Kövesi. Ms Kövesi (pictured...
Bosnia has the world's most complicated system of government: a gerrymandered mess overseen by an unelected mandarin. While it pleases almost nobody, the system has...
With bagels making a delicious comeback in Lithuania’s capital and a number of traditional Jewish celebrations becoming part of city life again, there’s a sense that...
Moldova’s Socialist Party took the most seats in the country’s parliamentary elections, held on February 24, but failed to secure a majority needed to form a government...
The Danube Delta is now available on Street View in Google Maps and can be explored by anyone in the world who has an internet connection. The Delta is present with all...
Now that one of the silliest international disputes of recent decades has been resolved, Greece will no longer veto Macedonia's (now officially North Macedonia)...
Bulgarian environmental campaigners claimed a major victory in January when a court in the country’s capital, Sofia, dealt a fatal blow to plans to extend...
Emerging Europe selects 19 off-the-beaten-track destinations across the region well worth visiting in 2019. Lublin, Poland A long-forgotten jewel in eastern...
The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja Mijatović has said that Hungary faces many interconnected human rights challenges. “The space for the work of...
Don’t take this the wrong way, for in general I love Bucharest’s public transport system, really I do. Once again this winter RATB (or, as it is now...
The number of fathers taking advantage of their paternity leave entitlements has been on the rise in most European countries over the past decade. However, with the...
