The sight of Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico standing next to 1 million euros in cash – ostensibly a reward for information leading to the arrest of the...
Craig Turp-Balazs
Craig Turp-Balazs is the editor of Emerging Europe.
Bucharest’s metro system can often be notoriously, even dangerously overcrowded. During the weekday morning rush, which can last from 7am to 10am, the M2 line serving...
Estonia – by quite some distance – is viewed as being the least corrupt country in emerging Europe, according to the latest Corruption Perceptions Index, published...
A Romanian film, Touch Me Not, took the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival this past weekend. While plenty of people welcomed the victory – a rare case of a...
A young Slovak investigative journalist, Ján Kuciak, has been found shot dead alongside his fiancée Martina Kušnírová at their home in the town of Vel’ka Mača near the...
Romanian Justice Minister Tudorel Toader has formally called for the dismissal of Laura Codruta Kovesi, the head of the country’s anti-corruption agency, the DNA.
Latvia has been scrambling to defend the integrity of its banking system in the wake of the arrest of Ilmars Rimsevics, governor of the Latvian National Bank and a board...
A lack of transparency and stable regulations, as well as the constant need to renegotiate how government funds are allocated, has created a fire sale style of politics...
Romania’s finest building, the Atheneum in Bucharest, was the magnificent setting for a lavish awards ceremony on February 19 at which the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BSE)...
The former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili, arrested in Ukraine on February 12 and subsequently deported to Poland, has surfaced in the Netherlands, from where he...
Laura Codruta Kovesi, the boss of Romania’s highly effective anti-corruption agency, the DNA, held an extraordinary press conference on February 14 in which she said...
The Romanian Foreign Investors Council (FIC) has sent a sternly worded open letter to the country’s prime minister, Viorica Dancila, bemoaning a continued lack of...
