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
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Hungarian-American businessman and philanthropist George Soros has publicly reiterated his support for Budapest’s Central European University (CEU), stating that...
Moldova’s new government has pushed through a major electoral reform, changing the country’s deeply unpopular mixed electoral system. The changes will see...
Slovenian Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Andrej Bertoncelj has expressed his hopes for stronger ties between Slovenian and Japanese companies. In an...
Three large orders from the cities of Berlin, Milan and Warsaw in recent months have positioned Polish bus and coach manufacturer Solaris as Europe’s...
American rock band Metallica has donated 250,000 euros to a Romanian association building the country’s first pediatric oncology hospital, the band confirmed on August...
Bulgaria’s unemployment rate dropped to record low of 4.2 per cent in the second quarter of 2019, down from 5.5 per cent in the comparable period of last year, the...
The Czech Republic accounted for almost half of real estate investment in Central and Eastern Europe in the first half of 2019, according to new figures from Cushman and...
Low inflation is one of the main reasons that Bosnia and Herzegovina’s investment risk remains low, Karlheinz Dobnigg, president of the management board of Raiffeisen...
Five NATO members, Germany, France, Italy, the UK and the US issued a joint statement on August 13 calling on Serbia and Kosovo to “restart EU-led dialogue with...
The Czech Republic received the highest number of Schengen visa applications of any emerging Europe country in 2018, new data from Schengen Visa Info has revealed...
Boston-based Seven Bridges, a leading bioinformatics solution provider, has announced plans to expand its Serbia operations into Novi Sad, in support of a growing...