The Romanian government’s attempts to prevent the country’s former anti-corruption chief Laura Codruța Kövesi from becoming the first head of the European Union’s newly...
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A selection 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 here...
International Women’s Day, March 8, is a public holiday in some countries, an occasion for men to offer women flowers in others, and largely ignored elsewhere. In...
Romania’s justice ministry has opened a new investigation into the conduct of the country’s former anti-corruption chief, Laura Codruța Kövesi. Ms Kövesi (pictured...
Back in the early 1990s, the former socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe embarked on a journey to transform their centrally planned economies to market...
According to the latest Forbes’ Billionaires List, there are 2,153 billionaires (in US dollars) in the world and 28 of them are from the emerging Europe region. The list...
The Romanian residential market is not as stable as it used to be. While oversupply, due to speculative development, has been the main threat for many years, now the...
Bucharest City Hall and the World Bank have signed a Reimbursable Service Agreement (RAS) – a form of technical assistance project – to support the municipality in...
Central and Eastern Europe might not be famous for its discoveries, but in some ways it is an unfair stereotype. On my first walking tour of Budapest I found out that...
The European economy is expected to grow for the seventh consecutive year in 2019, with expansion forecast in every member state. Employment is at a record high and...
Latvia is one of just a handful of countries with a perfect score in a new World Bank index looking at women’s legal rights affecting work. The index, part of the...
Romania should improve the implementation of laws and ensure funding to effectively protect the rights of persons with disabilities and protect women from violence, a...