News last week that the Serbian capital Belgrade might be about to end its century-long wait for a metro line got us thinking about some of the many other underground...
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Coaches from outside Great Britain and Ireland are now commonplace in England’s Premier League, the richest in world football, but just 30 years ago they were...
Loved by Poles for generations, the creator of Tytus, Romek i A’Tomek has passed away, leaving a rich comic book legacy. The Polish journalist and comic book...
Filmmakers, musicians, authors, and other representatives of traditional media from emerging Europe have for years been well known around the world. Now, a generation of...
The shrinking of the Aral Sea has been called “one of the planet’s worst ever environmental disasters”. Is there any hope for its recovery? And is the...
Is Belgrade’s wait for a metro system finally about to come to an end? It’s now nearly a century since the idea of building a metro system in Serbia’s...
Korean pop music, better known as K-pop, has in recent years become a genuinely global phenomenon, with acts such as BTS and Blackpink frequently outselling the best...
In the Western Balkans, issues of reconciliation and overcoming the past are still a stumbling block to progress. Often ignored by politicians and mainstream society, it...
Good news stories might have been hard to come by in 2020, but in the midst of a challenging and tumultuous year, the European bison (Bison bonasus) has moved from...
Emerging Europe is full of people who have lived remarkable lives, but few are more remarkable than the Hungarian gymnast Ágnes Keleti, the oldest living Olympic...
In late December, Montenegro’s flag carrier Montenegro Airlines become the latest airline to stop flying as a result of the downturn in travel caused by the Covid-19...
Croatia and North Macedonia, as well as Czechia, Lithuania and Poland, are amongst the few countries in Europe to have legalised the use of marijuana for medical...
