Catch up quickly with the stories from Central and Eastern Europe that matter. Russia’s war on Ukraine Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky this week...
Tag - Skopje
In mid-July I had the brilliant idea of taking a graduation trip to two of the five least-visited countries in all of Europe – Kosovo and North Macedonia. While I was...
Bulgaria’s new prime minister, Kiril Petkov, has made promising noises about ending a veto currently preventing North Macedonia from opening EU accession talks...
Grammy award-winning Ed Sheeran has sold more than 150 million albums worldwide, making him one of the world’s best-selling music artists in history. In December...
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...
Remote working – already a trend long before the Covid-19 pandemic – is here to stay. The number of people eschewing the office in favour of working from...
Hope at last for the long-suffering inhabitants of North Macedonia’s capital Skopje, Europe’s most polluted city, as the country commits to exiting coal by...
Croatia and North Macedonia, as well as Czechia, Lithuania and Poland, are amongst the few countries in Europe to have legalised the use of marijuana for medical...
Back in 2018, many saw Bulgaria’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union as a means of providing impetus to the European integration of the Western Balkans. The...
Six Western Balkan capitals – Belgrade, Skopje, Prishtina, Tirana, Podgorica and Sarajevo – and 400 trees planted simultaneously. One goal – to prove that, by taking...
Mother Teresa’s life and the history of Albania – especially its people’s relationship with Roman Catholicism – are intertwined, with the humanitarian icon...
Air quality in parts of Central and Eastern Europe is poor, and not enough is being done to tackle the problem. Poland is the worst offender. The Polish Economic...
