No visit to Romania is complete without seeing the magnificent painted monasteries of Bucovina. Amidst often fierce debate regarding the amount of public money being...
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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...
Following Ukraine and Serbia, here is the latest in our series of five unpopular opinions about the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. This week, five unpopular...
Environmental groups fear that new Romanian legislation threatens Europe’s largest population of bears. When news emerged in May that a Liechtenstein prince had been...
The Prince of Wales last month chose a book about rural Romania, Along the Enchanted Way, as one of five favourites featured by his wife the Duchess of Cornwall’s...
A major new investment in a technical university cements the reputation of the Romanian city of Cluj as a hotbed of talent, innovation and technology. The Transylvanian...
Across Romania, people will vote on September 27 in local elections that – in the absence of any reliable opinion polls – will provide the most accurate gauge of...
To Șoarș, a small village just over the hills from the Transylvanian city of Făgăraș, a village in which my mother-in-law worked (at the mayor’s office) for a time...
“The Great Reset” will be the theme of a unique twin summit to be convened by the World Economic Forum (WEF) in January, 2021. The 51st World Economic Forum...
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...
It’s fair to say that football in Romania has seen happier times. The game is currently at a low ebb. Crowds for domestic matches are smaller than ever, and only...
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...
The German electronics manufacturer Sennheiser has officially opened a new plant in Brașov, Transylvania. After commencing the first assembly of products at the plant in...