Bulgaria is hoping that an initiative offering free holidays to schoolchildren will relaunch its tourism industry. But for the sector to fully recover, foreign tourists...
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Immigration to the European Union will increase over the next decade decade, especially from Africa and the Middle East. The EU should manage it intelligently in close...
Bulgarians are hoping that the EU’s new chief prosecutor, Laura Codruța Kövesi, will help them fight corruption. To do so, she will need local support. Almost a...
This Pride month, the Bulgarian LGBT+ community is experiencing an increase in homophobic attacks and bullying. Many years ago however, the country was a pioneer in the...
Central Europe Poland’s Łódź region has announced that the European Union’s most polluting coal plant, Bełchatów, will close by 2036 and its mines by 2038. The news is...
With more than half of its population now vaccinated with at least one dose of a Covid-19 jab, Hungary says the time has come to switch responsibility from the state to...
Joe Biden needs to remember that the process of EU accession is matter for EU members alone. Half a year ago in an op-ed for Emerging Europe, I warned the administration...
Covid-19 has brought home the necessity of speeding up the process of digitalisation of government and public services. But the transformation must be carried out with...
Four of the seven countries who this week implemented the European Union’s Digital Covid-19 Certificate are from emerging Europe: Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, and...
Central Europe The CEO of Hungarian airline Wizz Air criticised European governments on Wednesday for barring flights over Belarus in response to the forced landing of a...
A snap parliamentary election in Bulgaria, set to be held in July, is likely to be as inconclusive as April’s ballot. Unless the country’s largest parties...
At a time when we are becoming increasingly aware of the dangers of harmful forms of cultural discourse, why can’t we have less stereotypical representations of...