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...
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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...
Across Romania, people will vote on September 27 in local elections that – in the absence of any reliable opinion polls – will provide the most accurate gauge of...
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...
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...
As emerging Europe, and the rest of the world, settles into the new normal, aspects of our day-to-day lives are evolving. While contact sports, clubbing, and crammed...
