A Slovenian start-up is taking a radical approach to plant-based, meat-like products. Instead of creating burgers and ‘chicken’ nuggets, they have developed...
Culture
Emerging Europe’s Jo Harper has lived in Poland for more than 20 years. His latest book, Our Man in Warszawa, challenges some accepted thinking in the West about...
This year’s Academy Award nominations – announced this week – were the subject of much celebration in Romania. Alexander Nanau’s film Collective didn’t...
When Serbia went into lockdown last year to prevent the spread of Covid-19, it was not the first time that the country had closed its doors and battened down the...
Central Asia has a rich history, and vast cultural diversity. Dozens of different ethnic and linguistic groups live across the five countries of the region, and their...
The Orator, the full-length debut of director Yusup Razykov, succinctly and objectively captures the profound societal changes which communism brought on Uzbek society...
One of Bucharest’s least-fashionable neighbourhoods, Pantelimon, is being transformed by an art project that tells the history of the area in the form of large...
Trade and investment between emerging Europe and South Korea is booming. Cultural exchanges less so. However, one Polish-Bulgarian chef who rose to stardom in South...
Contemporary emerging Europe is a hub of car manufacturing, although with the exception of Škoda in Czechia and Dacia in Romania, the overwhelming majority of vehicles...
Ukrainian football has a glorious past and considerable pedigree, but its domestic league is in trouble. When Andriy Shevchenko won the Champions League with Milan in...
Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, is preparing to radically reconstruct its railway station, and this week called on architects from around the world to submit...
International Women’s Day, March 8, is a public holiday in some countries, an occasion for men to offer women flowers in others, and largely ignored elsewhere. In very...
