Central Europe Romania’s economy jumped by a staggering 5.3 per cent in the final quarter of 2020, in large part thanks to the country’s relatively loose Covid-19 lockdown strategy. The expansion of the country’s economy puts it ahead of all other...
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Central Europe Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said this week that his government plans to impose a new levy on advertising revenues and use the proceeds to...
Central Europe Hungary and Poland lifted their veto of the European Union’s next multi-year budget and Covid-19 recovery package after reaching an agreement with...
Central Europe Poland and Hungary should ask the European Union’s top court to assess the link between access to EU money and observing the rule of law, instead of...
Six Western Balkan capitals – Belgrade, Skopje, Prishtina, Tirana, Podgorica and Sarajevo – and 400 trees planted simultaneously. One goal – to prove that, by taking...
How old is Tirana? One hundred, four hundred, or thousands of years old? This year the city celebrated a century as the capital of Albania, but today’s Tirana is...
On Sunday May 17, Albania’s National Theatre in Tirana was finally demolished after more than two years of protests and resistance from civil society, artists, and...
Few architectural styles are as contentious as brutalism. There are people who will say that baroque Catholic churches have just too much going on, or that the Chrysler...
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...
Few cities in emerging Europe have changed as much over the past three decades as the Albanian capital Tirana. At first, the transformation was chaotic: hundreds of...
Following on from Lithuania being crowned as emerging Europe’s best-performing country when it comes to making progress in the fight against climate change, the...
There may be much tension at present between Belarus and Russia, as a row over energy supplies escalates and with negotiations between the two governments regarding...
