In the 1960s and 1970s, one of Yugoslavia’s most famous performers was a Belgrade traffic policeman, the inimitable Jovan Bulj, who turned directing traffic into...
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Six Western Balkan capitals – Belgrade, Skopje, Prishtina, Tirana, Podgorica and Sarajevo – and 400 trees planted simultaneously. One goal – to prove that, by taking...
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...
Split is set to become the first Croatian city to join the European Green Cities programme, after a memorandum of understanding was signed last week by the city’s...
A strange thing happened in Belgrade in November of 2014, the kind of thing that can really only occur in a post-socialist country. On the evening of November 21...
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...
Some of Belgrade’s streets are about to change their names, following a decision made by the Serbian capital city’s council. Usually, this wouldn’t be news. Unlike...
Olga Tokarczuk’s Nobel Prize Lecture has been named Emerging Europe’s Artistic Achievement 2020. The Polish writer won the 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature for...
Montenegro declares itself Covid-19 free, as emerging Europe reaps rewards of strict lockdown policy
On the evening of May 24, Montenegro became the second country in Europe to officially report they it is free of active Covid-19 cases. Montenegro has now joined the...
Details of a Chinese-backed railway link between Budapest and Belgrade, one of the biggest international infrastructure projects in the emerging Europe region for many...
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...
Few architectural styles are as contentious as brutalism. There are people who will say that baroque Catholic churches have just too much going on, or that the Chrysler...
The famous author Virginia Woolf once proclaimed that everyone needs a room of their own. I’d like to humbly add, everyone needs a yard of their own too. It’s precisely...
