Sir Suma Chakrabarti, the president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), has called on Romania to reinvent itself and “move up the value...
Craig Turp-Balazs
Craig Turp-Balazs is the editor of Emerging Europe.
Romanian inflation, the highest in the EU, rose again in August to reach 5.1 per cent year-on-year, up from 4.6 per cent in July, when inflation had fallen for the first...
The largest city in eastern Hungary, Debrecen is an elegant place long-famed, like many towns in this part of the country, for its healing thermal waters, here set in...
A referendum on changing Romania’s constitution, backed by the ruling PSD and its leader – convicted criminal Liviu Dragnea, is set to be held on October 7. Were...
Romania is set to hold a divisive constitutional referendum on October 7 after the country’s senate voted to approve an amendment that would change the...
Multi-award winning chef Ana Ros is one of the best-known Slovenians in the world, particularly since her appearance on Netflix’s Chef’s Table series. And yet as she...
Craig Turp dives deep into the past - and the present - of the Athénée Palace Hilton in Bucharest, the first in a new series featuring the finest hotels in emerging...
Business and IT service providers, together with emerging Europe locations, are receiving increasingly more exposure on the international market. The Emerging Europe...
A Russian ban on the import of Moldovan wine has pushed the country to promote its wares, with increasing success, elsewhere.
It’s the footwear which gives them away. Sandals, trainers, sometimes even flip-flops. It’s why Romanians call them pantofari, not an easy word to translate...
With the remarkable sight of rain-soaked Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović consoling her team after the World Cup final in Moscow still fresh in the memory, it...
Czech President Miloš Zeman has again courted controversy by refusing to make any speeches or attend events commemorating the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968...