Start-ups and innovation aren’t always about AI and high technology—sometimes they can be based on the oldest crafts in the world. Two Baltic start-ups are putting...
Marek Grzegorczyk
Marek Grzegorczyk is a reporter at Emerging Europe.
Emerging Europe’s subzero winters necessitate heating that accounts for much of the region’s energy demand. Transitioning its heating sector away from polluting fossil...
Levels of software piracy in CEE are significantly higher than in Western Europe. Back in 2007, Romania’s then president, the combative (some would say abrasive) Traian...
Farming is a key sector of the Ukrainian economy, accounting for more than eight per cent of GDP in 2022. Its neighbours, fearing a ‘surge’ of cheap grain...
Bulgaria and Romania will likely need to wait at least another 12 months before joining the Schengen border-free travel zone. That’s bad news for their economies...
A plan to make immigration the key issue of a forthcoming election has spectacularly backfired for Poland’s ruling party. Will it now admit that the country desperately...
Nine months after the start of Baku’s blockade of the Lachin Corridor, there is a new government in Karabakh and Azerbaijan has allowed humanitarian supplies to be...
A month before Poland votes in an already divisive election, a major human rights group suggests that the country’s government is carrying out a ‘ruthless...
In her State of the Union speech on September 13, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen renewed calls for Ukraine and Moldova’s EU integration, and...
Moldova is turning away from Russia, decisively so, and voters appear ready to back the shift. A new poll in Moldova by the International Republican Institute’s...
A Polish deep-tech firm wants to make high-speed trains accessible to railway operators across the world by deploying maglev technology on conventional track. Some...
Three and a half years after the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, Azerbaijan’s land borders remain closed. The personal and economic costs are mounting. On August...
