That Estonia leads emerging Europe in a number of fields, from digital government to fintech, is not news to regular readers of these pages. Indeed, so much best...
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Albert Camus, one of the 20th century’s greatest philosophers but – in his youth – a distinctly average goalkeeper, once wrote: “only in a football stadium...
The food in emerging Europe is good, and don’t let anyone ever tell you any different. Internationally, however, Central and Eastern European cuisine has not quite...
A new Slovak bill limiting access to abortion – proposed by the populist OĽaNO (Ordinary People) party MP Anna Záborská – adds to a heap of similar laws that...
Back in 1920, the science fiction drama Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti or Rossum’s Universal Robots (R.U.R), written by Czech Karel Čapek successfully captivated audiences...
On September 10, 2011, nineteen women were promoted to the rank of lieutenant in the Serbian Army, the first generation of female cadets to graduate from the...
For music, as for much else, 2020 has been a bleak year. Festivals – ranging from large to small and everything in between – have been cancelled en masse...
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the film industry in Central and Eastern Europe experienced a dramatic vacuum in terms of finance. This, together with the...
English Heritage this week unveiled a prestigious blue plaque to Christine Granville, the Polish World War II special agent who Winston Churchill once called his...
Barring total disaster in a time trial today, the last competitive stage of this year’s delayed Tour de France, a Slovenian will on Sunday ride into Paris to be crowned...
The Festival of Four Cultures, held every September in the multicultural Polish city of Łódź, has now more than ever become a point of nexus between different...
During the Bosnian War, from 1992 to 1995, 2.2 million people became refugees or were internally displaced. Over half of those were ethnic Bosniaks, fleeing the fighting...
