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The Emerging Europe Awards 2020: A unique opportunity to recognise excellence in the region

By any standards of measurement, Polish bus manufacturer Solaris had an outstanding 2019.The firm, based in Bolechowo-Osiedle, near Poznań, secured orders worth hundreds of million euros for its revolutionary electric vehicles from public transport operators in cities as diverse as Milan, Berlin, Tallinn, Dubrovnik and the Polish capital Warsaw.Its environmentally-friendly buses, which feature low floors…

EU and Western Balkans leaders meet for enlargement talks

EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and European Council president Charles Michel are on Monday (21 August) attending an informal dinner on EU enlargement in the Greek capital Athens.In October, the commission will report, as it regularly does, on the progress of negotiations with the Balkan countries, before European leaders decide whether to open…

Is NATO more important than the EU? North Macedonia’s president believes so

North Macedonia officially became a member of NATO on March 27, with the country’s flag raised at NATO Headquarters alongside those of the military alliance’s 29 other members.“NATO needs North Macedonia and vice versa,” Mircea Geoană, NATO’s deputy secretary general tells Emerging Europe. “Like every member, North Macedonia is now under the protection of Article V.…

Why ‘autonomy’ is Romania’s dirtiest word

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 number) as distractions from his government’s appalling handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, Romania – lacking a critically-ill president or prime minister with a pregnant young…