My role as editor of Emerging Europe requires me to chair or take part in a large number of panel discussions covering a wide range of subjects, from investment and...
From the Editor
There are plenty of reasons to visit Georgia. Borjomi, the world’s tastiest mineral water. Nali, Tbilisi’s legendary live music pub. Khaciapuri (the Ajaran...
Last summer, while enjoying goulash at one of the many fine restaurants on Piața Mare, the main square of the Transylvanian city of Sibiu, my daughter quite innocently...
The Romanian government’s attempts to prevent the country’s former anti-corruption chief Laura Codruța Kövesi from becoming the first head of the European Union’s newly...
Bulgarian environmental campaigners claimed a major victory in January when a court in the country’s capital, Sofia, dealt a fatal blow to plans to extend...
It’s been a year of centenaries throughout emerging Europe. With varying degrees of fuss and bombastic nationalist sentiment, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia...
All over Europe, from the auditorium of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London to the exhibition pavilions at MIPIM in Cannes, I have heard one...
A referendum on changing Romania’s constitution, backed by the ruling PSD and its leader – convicted criminal Liviu Dragnea, is set to be held on October 7. Were...
When BMW announced at the beginning of August that it is to spend more than one billion euros constructing a new factory on a greenfield site close to Debrecen in...
Romania’s government would like you to believe that hundreds of thousands of ordinary people took to the streets of the country’s capital Bucharest on the evening...
Emigration is the elephant in emerging Europe’s room. With the catastrophic numbers of people leaving the region (at least from some parts) speaking for themselves, the...
That incumbent Viktor Orbán won a third term as Hungarian prime minister on April 8 came as a surprise to nobody: the Hungarian electoral system, one of the most...
