Municipal elections in South East Europe tend not to grab too many headlines outside of the region, but two recent ballots – in Sarajevo and Zagreb – have...
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Organ donation is a controversial subject in Serbia at the best of times. Now, a decision by the country’s Constitutional Court is threatening to undo limited progress...
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...
Ratko Mladić, the so-called Butcher of the Balkans, will spend the rest of his life in prison following a failed appeal against his sentence. The appeals chamber of the...
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...
In the 1980s, before the emergence of turbo-folk — the syncretic music genre that would end up devouring the Western Balkans music scene — Yugoslavia was a place very...
Euro 2020 kicks off on June 11, after a year-long delay. We take a look at the seven teams from Central and Eastern Europe that have qualified, and assess their chances...
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...
From zero to sixty in just 1.85 seconds, the Rimac Nevera will be one of the fastest cars on the road. Costing a cool two million euros, it’s all-electric, 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...
Central Europe Poland said on Thursday that the waiver of US sanctions on the company behind Russia’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline was a threat to energy security in...
Tennis matches are easy to fix, as only one player needs to be involved. Two Slovak players have been banned from the sport in recent months for doing just that. Two...
