Our weekly digest of articles about emerging Europe published elsewhere this week, all of which caught our eye and all of which are well worth your time. Listing them...
Emerging Europe Staff
The byline Emerging Europe Staff is used to denote articles to which several members of the Emerging Europe editorial team may have contributed. It may also occasionally be used to protect the identity of staff reporting from conflict zones or discussing contentious issues.
These are times of intense interest for wealthy foreigners in the UK, not least Russians. However, the stereotypical ‘party like a Russian’ personas have recently given...
The European Union is investing 101 million euros from its Cohesion Fund in order to upgrade the a section of railway between the Slovenian cities of Maribor and...
Events are being held across Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to mark 30 years since two million people from the three countries joined hands to create a 600-kilometre...
Ride-hailing company Bolt has launched a food delivery service in Tallinn, Estonia, where it is headquartered. The Estonian start-up, previously known as Taxify, said it...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has decided to remove the age limit that currently applies to the position of IMF managing director. Since 1951, the IMF’s by-laws...
North Macedonia’s special prosecutor for organised crime, Katica Janeva, was remanded in custody on August 21 following her arrest on corruption charges. Mrs Janeva is...
Ryanair announced on August 21 that it will be launching routes to western Europe from two airports in Georgia, Tbilisi and Kutaisi. From November, the airline will...
Relex Development, the world’s first cryptocurrency-based real estate development investment opportunity platform and a regional center for digital transformation...
Five young innovators from emerging Europe, two from Romania and one each from Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Poland, have been named on the Massachusetts Institute of...
The erection of fences in the vicinity of the village of Gugutiantkari by the de facto authorities of Georgia’s breakaway Tskhinvali region, backed by Russian...
Bulgaria has the European Union’s highest rate of fatal road accidents, with 64 deaths per million inhabitants, almost six times the lowest rate, that of Malta (11...
