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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In a bid to boost Romania’s faltering Covid-19 vaccination campaign, hit by widespread vaccine hesitancy, one mayor has turned to a tried and tested method of...
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...
Emerging Europe and Central Asia are set for a modest recovery in 2021, but well below the forecast for the global economy, according to the World Bank. The global...
What’s the next move for IT service providers to adapt and thrive in the post-pandemic context? Companies will have to move away from the model of providing cheap...
GE Healthcare has a symbiotic relationship with emerging Europe: the region is a key market for the firm, while its research and development talent is crucial for future...
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...
As a result of the current pandemic and the concurrent economic, social, and climate crises, there is an increasing preoccupation for societal resilience in Europe and...
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...