In the race for semiconductor self-sufficiency, Poland has become one of Europe’s leading contenders—carving out a space for itself in a market dominated by the world’s tech giants. The global ...

Serbian Interior Minister Aleksandar Vulin has courted controversy with several statements about the so-called Serbian World, an idea that Serbs living in the Western Balkans should be part of the ...

The first significant Russian strategic defeat as a direct consequence of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine is the loss of its Mediterranean outpost. Vladimir Putin’s obsession with Ukraine has led ...

Poland has spent decades championing coal despite Europe’s increasingly urgent battle against climate change. Now, in a twist of atomic ambition, Warsaw wants to power past its sooty legacy and switch ...

Kazakhstan is becoming a leader in cashless transactions, fuelled by fierce competition and a supportive regulatory environment. The number of fintech start-ups in Kazakhstan has quadrupled over the ...

Poland has long been a cultural powerhouse. The birthplace of no fewer than six Nobel Literature Prize laureates (most recently Olga Tokarczuk in 2018), the country can also boast a giant of science ...

Several countries in Europe, including Poland and Georgia, have already taken steps towards making practical use of blockchain technology in order to bring security and transparency to land ...

Three decades since declaring independence from the Soviet Union, Kazakhstan is finally about to ditch the Cyrillic alphabet. At the end of January 2021, the Kazakh government finally announced plans ...

As Europe scrambles to bolster its defence capabilities, Lithuania’s capital is betting that the shortest path to security runs through the stars. When we think of space technology, the mind typically ...

In the latest of our new series drawing on the original analysis and data collected by Emerging Europe as part of our Future of IT report, we look at Hungary. Any in-depth look at Hungary’s IT sector ...