Craig Turp
Editor at Emerging Europe
Recovering travel writer now head of insight and analysis at @reinvantage. Comments on Romania/CEE, Central Asia, travel, Chelsea. Happiest on a train.
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3 weeks ago |
emerging-europe.com | Craig Turp-Balazs |Craig Turp
Despite Russia’s brutal invasion, Ukraine’s economy forges ahead. There may be stalemate on the battlefield, but on the economic front, Ukraine is advancing. More than three years into Russia’s invasion, the country’s economy has demonstrated remarkable resilience, growing by 2.9 per cent in 2024—a figure that would be impressive even in peacetime.
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3 weeks ago |
emerging-europe.com | Craig Turp-Balazs |Craig Turp
A new book documents the quiet reinvention of Ukrainian women amid Russia’s invasion. When war erupts, public attention typically fixates on frontline battles, geopolitical manoeuvres and military strategies. The wider human story—particularly of women adapting to extraordinary circumstances—often remains untold.
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1 month ago |
emerging-europe.com | Craig Turp-Balazs |Craig Turp
In 1989, Romanians paid with their lives to escape dictatorship. Now they risk sleepwalking into isolation. For six months, Romania has lived in a state of suspended animation. The shock victory of an unknown ultranationalist, Călin Georgescu, in the first round of a presidential election in November triggered a constitutional crisis. The country’s highest court annulled the election, cancelling the second round, citing Russian interference.
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1 month ago |
emerging-europe.com | Craig Turp-Balazs |Craig Turp
In a dramatic pivot from decades of economic isolation, Uzbekistan has placed 1.68 billion US dollars worth of state assets into foreign hands. Uzbekistan this week took a bold step toward economic liberalisation with the launch of the National Investment Fund of the Republic of Uzbekistan (UzNIF). The 1.68 billion US dollars fund, which holds minority stakes in 18 of the country’s strategic state-owned enterprises, became fully operational on May 1.
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1 month ago |
emerging-europe.com | Craig Turp-Balazs |Craig Turp
Despite global trade tensions and manufacturing slowdown in Germany, Central and Eastern European economies demonstrate remarkable resilience with growth projections significantly outpacing the euro area. Donald Trump’s trade war might be rattling global markets, but Eastern Europe appears positioned to withstand the economic headwinds, according to the latest spring forecast from the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw).
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Se scrie ‘ia uite’, nu ‘i-a uite’.
@bucharestlife Puță , o să fie România ta atunci când o să postezi în limba română ! Sau vrei să te dai mare , “ i-a uite ce destept sunt eu “ ! Prostovane , care faci pe patriotu ‘ .
Hunor is the first key figure (I think) to make the important point that Simion is not a Christian. A Christian is, before anything else, a good person. If Romania really is the Christian country it so often claims to be, it will not elect a pharisee. (It would be nice if the
Kelemen Hunor, harsh message to Viktor Orban and George Simion: "Simion is neither a sovereignist nor a Christian - he is anti-Hungarian! We will not forget that in the Uz Valley he danced on the graves of our grandparents" https://t.co/v4ukDT2o2q
This is my Romania, good Romania. For Europe, for Freedom! https://t.co/kBxaCvpLuW
