The latest member of both the eurozone and the Schengen area, further reform could see Croatia close the income gap with the EU27 average in just a decade and a half...
Marek Grzegorczyk
Marek Grzegorczyk is a reporter at Emerging Europe.
It’s a gloomy picture for much of Eastern Europe and Central Asia – and parts of the EU – in the latest Corruption Perceptions Index. Ukraine...
The plight of Odesa recalls the addition of Dubrovnik, in Croatia, to the UNESCO World Heritage in Danger list in December 1991 following Serb bombing of its historic...
Hopes of adopting the euro in 2024 are beginning to fade in Bulgaria as the country lurches from one election to another. Wash, rinse, repeat. Bulgaria will hold yet...
Poland, Czechia, Slovakia and Hungary are lagging behind in green transformation, and green pioneers such as Austria could benefit as a technology leader in climate and...
Diia, Ukraine’s public services smartphone app, has been so successful that other countries want the technology behind it. It’s rare that Estonia needs to take...
CEE executives realise that they must seize the opportunity to transform their organisations, meeting challenges including geopolitical threats, rampant inflation and...
The first major economic forecast of the year – from the World Bank – is out. For most of the countries in the emerging Europe region, it doesn’t make...
The acquittal of a former Czech prime minister of corruption charges may boost his presidential hopes, but has likely come too late. In 2021, Pandora Papers revelations...
A new Estonian project aims to provide a further boost for personalised healthcare based on genetic data, and for the country’s healthtech start-ups. A consortium...
A future where households form ‘small energy communities’ that share power with neighbours? That’s the long-term goal of an innovative Romanian start...
Armed conflict between Kosovo and Serbia has been avoided. For now, that’s as much as anyone can hope for. In the end, Prishtina offered the tiniest of olive...
