Central Europe A major earthquake hit central Croatia, killing at least seven people and injuring dozens of others. The quake, measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale, caused widespread damage in a number of towns close to the epicentre, 50 kilometres...
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The shift to online learning caused by Covid-19 has been a boon for edtech start-ups such as Poland’s Brainly, which has just closed a major new funding round that...
Airly, which raised 1.7 million euros in a pre-seed round in October, combines AI with hyperlocal data. The Polish air quality monitoring start-up Airly has become the...
In October 2013, Kraków had the honour of being the first city in continental Europe to be awarded the title of City of Literature by UNESCO. This marked the official...
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...
Dredging of the Pripyat River in Ukraine has begun at eight different sites, placing 28 million people living downstream – who depend on the Dnieper River, of...
Three Seas stock exchange leaders call for increased visibility of emerging Europe’s capital markets
Polish President Andrzej Duda has told the leaders of emerging Europe’s major stock exchanges that now is the time to realise the region’s full economic potential, in...
Hungarian MPs on July 14 approved legislation that opens the way for towns and cities around the country to cap the number of days per year property owners can rent out...
In 1987 Rupert Wolfe-Murray decided to travel overland from Scotland to Tibet. More than 30 years on, he has now written a book about his experience. In this extract, he...
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, thousands of small towns and cities across Europe were transformed by industrialisation. While most developed ad hoc, with...
The European Union has followed up its recent investment in Estonian ride-sharing start-up Bolt by signing a 20 million-euro debt agreement with Polish fintech Azimo...
There was a time not so long ago when few people travelled to emerging Europe for the food. Great restaurants were thin on the ground and service was invariably...
