The Baltic region’s largest ever infrastructure project, Rail Baltica, is on track to begin operating in 2026, according to the project’s head of strategy and...
Tag - Travel & Tourism
Georgia got Covid-19 right, but its tourism industry is paying the price for others getting it wrong
Few countries in emerging Europe have dealt with the Covid-19 pandemic as well as Georgia, where the total number of cases has been limited to fewer than 1,000. Just 15...
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...
Azerbaijan has reintroduced tight lockdown restrictions as the country scrambles to deal with a large increase in the number of Covid-19 infections. The new lockdown...
A major new report from Swedbank, a Nordic-Baltic banking group based in Stockholm, Sweden, claims that the construction of a high speed rail link between the Estonian...
Travel throughout emerging Europe is once again possible, albeit with some restrictions (you can check those at this enormously useful European Union website). Bulgaria...
Flows of foreign direct investment (FDI) to most of the economies of emerging Europe will be hard hit by the economic downturn caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, a new...
The European Commission has launched a new web platform, Re-open EU, to support the safe restart of travel and tourism across Europe. The platform will provide real-time...
The Lithuanian capital Vilnius, which has been making something of a name for itself over the past couple of months, coming up with a number of great initiatives to keep...
Czechia’s capital Prague is using the coronavirus-induced lull in visitors to rethink its whole approach to tourism. The city has produced a new strategy based on...
The notoriously slow railways of the Baltic states received a boost this week when the European Investment Bank (EIB) signed a 25-year loan agreement worth 95 million...
Montenegro declares itself Covid-19 free, as emerging Europe reaps rewards of strict lockdown policy
On the evening of May 24, Montenegro became the second country in Europe to officially report they it is free of active Covid-19 cases. Montenegro has now joined the...
