Although governments and healthcare managers have poured vast resources into combatting the coronavirus pandemic, first-quarter healthcare spending has actually...
Tag - Romania
Slovenia last week became the first country in the EU and emerging Europe to declare the end of the coronavirus epidemic. The decision was taken on May 14 after the...
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...
Bucharest’s Henri Coanda Airport (or Otopeni, as it is still almost universally known) has never been one of the most agreeable places in Romania. Undersized and...
The coronavirus pandemic has created a global framework in which governments can act in support of businesses and individuals. Romania, although it has the possibility...
Lockdowns are coming to an end, restrictions are being relaxed. The Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia have even said that they will open their borders to...
With a couple of notable exceptions, the countries of emerging Europe remain a long way behind those in the west of the continent when it comes to protecting the human...
An administrative blunder by Romania’s government means that the country’s 20 million people can from midnight on May 14 look forward to three days with no...
Poland’s presidential vote this week became the latest election to fall victim to Covid-19, although until late on Wednesday night it looked as though the poll...
Victory at ECHR for anti-corruption hero places Romania’s constitutional court in unwanted spotlight
Just days after being named as Emerging Europe’s Public Figure of the Year, Romanian Laura Codruţa Kövesi has won a landmark victory at the European Court of Human...
Ukraine is home to the cheapest mobile data plans in emerging Europe, with one gigabyte (1GB) of data costing an average of just 0.46 US dollars. Indeed, Ukraine offers...
Whereas the UK’s prime minister, Boris Johnson, has been able to use his own illness and the birth of his sixth or seventh child (nobody appears to know the exact...
