Our weekly digest of articles about emerging Europe published elsewhere this week, all of which caught our eye and all of which are well worth your time. Listing them...
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The Slovakian capital Bratislava is often overlooked as a tourist destination, ignored in favour of Vienna, Prague or Budapest. When you get here, however, it’s...
The blockage of accession talks with North Macedonia and Albania negatively impacts LGBTI rights in the region. This is the main message of a letter sent last week to...
The small village of Babice in southeastern Poland offers an experience you can find only in a handful of places around the world and will most probably not find...
The United Kingdom left the European Union at midnight Brussels time last night. Bells did not toll, at least not in the Turp-Balazs household. In fact, we did not mark...
Opera, one of the world’s leading web browsers with a user base of more than 350 million people, has completed the acquisition of the Estonian-based company Pocosys, as...
It’s now more than a year since the Bank of Lithuania became the first in the region to launch a regulatory sandbox, a fintech-conducive regulatory and supervisory...
The United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union raises a number of questions as to what comes next in its relationship with the rest of the continent. Initially...
Belarus has become the latest country to finally take a stand against the use of plastic. Earlier this month, the Belarusian government announced an action plan to phase...
What a difference two years of a mandate can make in politics: when he was elected president of France in 2017, Emmanuel Macron seemed to represent a bulwark against...
Emerging Europe speaks to Lidija Prokic and Altyinai Myrzabekova, regional coordinators for Europe and Central Asia at Transparency International, about the region’s...
While it remains unlikely that Belarus will become a part of Russia anytime soon, Moscow will continue with its efforts to assert influence over Minsk. The year-long...