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...
Marek Grzegorczyk
Marek Grzegorczyk is a reporter at Emerging Europe.
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...
Hungary excepted, Central and Eastern Europe is eager to end its reliance on Russia for nuclear fuel and technology. Rosatom, Russia’s state-owned nuclear energy...
The fintech industry has been a key part of Ukraine’s resilience in the face of Russia’s brutal full-scale invasion. Andrii Kryvoshapko, CEO of NovaPay, part of the Nova...
The EU wants to phase out the new sale of fossil fuel automobiles by 2035 as part of its plan to minimise carbon emissions. Emerging Europe is set to play a major role...
Hungary’s economy will perform better in the second half of 2023—it could hardly do any worse—but not enough to avoid a full-year recession. As athletes from...