Dancing bears used to be common on the streets and villages of Eastern Europe. These tamed wild animals were kept in captivity and trotted around for the purposes of...
Tag - Bulgaria
Not one of the seven countries legally committed to adopting the euro (Bulgaria, Czechia, Croatia, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Sweden) currently meet all the...
No politician, diplomat, bureaucrat or journalist I’ve ever asked this question has answered it. Yet they’re quick to tell me to give away my ethnic identity...
The regional economy of emerging Europe and Central Asia is forecast to contract by 4.7 per cent in 2020, with recessions in nearly all countries, according to new...
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...
Christo Vladimirov Javacheff dared to dream on an epic scale. His art stepping far beyond the boundaries of the canvas and into the world, having created masterpieces on...
A quick return to a fully functional Schengen area is needed to safeguard freedom of movement and ensure the EU’s economic recovery, says the European Parliament’s...
Almost one in three women worldwide experience physical and/or sexual violence by an intimate partner or sexual violence by someone else in their lifetime. In a majority...
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov has reaffirmed his country’s commitment to the Balkan Stream natural gas pipeline project, despite delays in construction...
Travelling north from the Bulgarian capital Sofia many years ago, researching a travel guide to the Balkan country, the name of a small town through which I passed on...
We will end 2020 with a smaller global economy than at the start of the year, warned International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva this week...
Poland will be emerging Europe’s largest beneficiary of coronavirus recovery funds under the Next Generation EU proposals revealed by European Commission President...