The World Economic Forum has called for The Great Reset. The European Union has made bold proposals for what it has ambitiously dubbed Next Generation EU. The...
From the Editors
One of the first articles I wrote after joining Emerging Europe back in 2017 was a piece advocating for the region to no longer be viewed as merely a low-cost production...
Slovenia last week became the first country in the EU and emerging Europe to declare the end of the coronavirus epidemic. The decision was taken on May 14 after the...
I last took a flight, a two-legged trip from Tallinn to Bucharest (via Warsaw), on March 13. Friday the 13th, for what it’s worth, two months ago. It was uneventful...
In the two decades in which I have lived, on and off, in Romania, I have become immune to the highly aggressive reaction that follows the publication of just about any...
The number of Covid-19 infections in some countries of the emerging Europe region appears to have peaked, making the first glimpses of a post-lockdown world visible...
Whereas the UK’s prime minister, Boris Johnson, has been able to use his own illness and the birth of his sixth or seventh child (nobody appears to know the exact...
We can in all reasonableness expect a vaccine against Covid-19 to go into general production by the end of this year, perhaps far sooner. What we can never alas expect...
For years, Romanians have been the scapegoats of petty, small-minded nationalists across Europe, not least in Britain, where throughout the Brexit debate they bore the...
Since Romania first instituted a nationwide lockdown on March 17 I have left my apartment on just four occasions: thrice to shop for food, and once to collect a new...
So many forecasts, so many assumptions, so many reports. I’ve spent the week reading them all, and have pulled together the most coherent and interesting into one...
It’s become one of the great ironies of the coronavirus pandemic in emerging Europe: while the elderly are constantly being told that they are the most at-risk group...