That the Czech Republic topped another global beer consumption ranking didn’t take many by surprise. Certainly not in Czechia, a country where pivo is a matter of national pride. According to the World Beer Index 2021, Czechia had no equals...
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Despots around the world are watching as Putin flouts every international norm and tramples over the democratic self-determination of a peaceful neighbour. There is a...
Central Europe Slovakia has imposed a strict lockdown, including a curfew, as it is struggling to curb one of the world’s worst Covid-19 outbreaks. The government...
Europe will need to choose between Nord Stream 2 and Ukraine’s territorial integrity, suggests Boris Johnson, as Russian troops amass near the country’s...
She’s been called the most famous French artist you’ve never heard of, but Sylvie Vartan has never forgotten her Bulgarian and Armenian roots. Sylvie Vartan...
Christo and partner Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon’s latest project, L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped, has been completed a year after the artist’s death, and 60...
Armenia is due to hold a snap parliamentary election later this month, and foreign policy will be a key issue given the country’s noticeable lack of true allies...
Another day, another “non-paper” in the Western Balkans. Hardly had the dust settled on a diplomatic spat between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Slovenia over...
Poland and Hungary’s ruling parties could join Italy’s Lega to create the third-largest group of MEPs in the European Parliament. Polish Prime Minister...
French President Emmanuel Macron doesn’t have a good track record of collaboration with the emerging Europe region. In 2017, he said that Poland, where a...
Even if the EU introduces a ban on visiting ski resorts to prevent the further spread of Covid-19, many of emerging Europe’s best winter sports destinations, which...
The EU still has a role to play in Nagorno-Karabakh, if it wants one. To say that the EU has been outmanoeuvred by Russia in Nagorno-Karabakh would be wrong, for this...