Low-income regions in Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, and Romania, where GDP per capita is under 50 per cent of the EU average, represent one of the major widening divides...
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As many as 3.4 million Romanians have fled the country since it joined the European Union in 2007. The figure represents 17 per cent of the country’s total...
Bucharest’s metro system can often be notoriously, even dangerously overcrowded. During the weekday morning rush, which can last from 7am to 10am, the M2 line serving...
Estonia – by quite some distance – is viewed as being the least corrupt country in emerging Europe, according to the latest Corruption Perceptions Index, published...
A Romanian film, Touch Me Not, took the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival this past weekend. While plenty of people welcomed the victory – a rare case of a...
Freedom of the press has proven, time and time again, to be an unpredictable and tumultuous factor in south, east and central Europe. Journalists are obstructed in their...
The CEO’s of central and eastern Europe’s six most important stock exchanges met in Prague on February 20 to discuss various means of extending co-operation between...
A lack of transparency and stable regulations, as well as the constant need to renegotiate how government funds are allocated, has created a fire sale style of politics...
Romania recorded Europe’s highest number of cases of measles in 2017: 5562, of which 35 were fatal. The figures – released by the World Health Organisation...
Romania’s finest building, the Atheneum in Bucharest, was the magnificent setting for a lavish awards ceremony on February 19 at which the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BSE)...
The European Commission has said that new EU budget for 2021-2027 will be equivalent to 1.1 to 1.2 per cent of EU gross national income. It should include new sources of...
The Romanian Foreign Investors Council (FIC) has sent a sternly worded open letter to the country’s prime minister, Viorica Dancila, bemoaning a continued lack of...