Emerging Europe is full of people who have lived remarkable lives, but few are more remarkable than the Hungarian gymnast Ágnes Keleti, the oldest living Olympic...
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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...
While we all want an end to Covid-19, the ability to travel again and to meet with friends and colleagues, here are five things specific to emerging Europe that we would...
A phenomenal year for a phenomenal cyclist ends with the sport’s most prestigious award. Slovenia’s Primož Roglič (pictured above) has been named as cyclist...
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...
Albert Camus, one of the 20th century’s greatest philosophers but – in his youth – a distinctly average goalkeeper, once wrote: “only in a football stadium...
Barring total disaster in a time trial today, the last competitive stage of this year’s delayed Tour de France, a Slovenian will on Sunday ride into Paris to be crowned...
News that Georgia’s national rugby team could be about join an elite tournament featuring eight of the strongest sides in the world will come as little surprise to...
Lithuanian start-up Trainer X has teamed up with Kaunas Science and Technology Park’s EVOLUT 4.0 programme in order to pursue its goal of disrupting the fitness industry...
Hungary is a country which suffered far more than its fair share of tragedy in the 20th century. The 1956 Revolution and subsequent Soviet invasion which quashed that...
Ştefan Kovács is one of the greatest soccer coaches who ever lived. Unfortunately, few of today’s young Romanian football fans have ever heard of him. Winner of...
Hungarian spending on recreation and sport is the highest in the European Union, according to new figures from Eurostat. Overall, the EU’s 28 member states spent...