The presidents of Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey jointly launched a new rail link on October 30, connecting the three countries and in the process creating a freight and...
Craig Turp-Balazs
Craig Turp-Balazs is the editor of Emerging Europe.
Ukraine’s Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade Maksym Nefyodov has warned potential investors in a number of state-owned enterprises that few are ‘gold...
In a welcome boost for Romania’s burgeoning IT outsourcing sector, the American tech giant GoPro – best known for its action cameras – announced on October 27 that it...
Romania’s Prime Minister Mihai Tudose said on October 25 that the country’s budget deficit for 2017 was “under 3 per cent” and would “remain under 3 per cent.” His...
Central European Media (CME), which owns and operates a number of television stations across emerging Europe, including TV Nova in the Czech Republic, bTV in Bulgaria...
Romania’s Finance Minister Ionuț Mișa announced on October 16 that the rate of income tax would be reduced to 10 per cent from January 1, 2018. The current rate of...
Georgia’s economy grew by 4.7 per cent in the first two quarters of 2017, a big increase on the 2016 whole-year figure of 2.7 per cent. Exports are booming, and the...
More than 350,000 Dacia-branded cars were sold across the European Union and EFTA countries in the first nine months of 2017, an increase of more than 10 per cent on...
Romanian politics has once again been thrust into turmoil by clashes within the ruling Social Democratic Party (PSD). For a party which less than a year ago comfortably...
More than a quarter of all invoices issued in Romania are paid late or not at all, a new report suggests. The study into European payment patterns, carried out by TNS...
With deep government pockets, technical sophistication and a comprehensive investment plan behind it, China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) can have a big impact on the...
In a bizarre outburst Varujan Vosganian, an MP for the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (ALDE), part of Romania’s ruling coalition, said that subsistence farming was...