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Central Europe Will Not Support Carbon Tax

Reading Time: < 1 minute Hungary's secretary of state for circular economy, energy and climate tells his government with several…

4 years ago

Czech PM’s Business Breaks Conflict of Interest Rules

According to an audit by the European Commission, the Agrofert business empire of Czech prime minister, Andrej Babis, has broken…

4 years ago

Hungary to dedicate over 50% of EU recovery funds to environmental protection

The Hungarian government has published a 432-page program with details on 68 investments to be implemented from the EU's HUF…

4 years ago

Popularity of Green Bonds Surges

Sustainable-bond issuance surged to a record high in the first quarter as more countries and companies looked to tap into…

4 years ago

EU Agrees Increased Climate Goals Ahead of Summit with US

Reading Time: < 1 minute The EU after 14-hours long talks agreed about the deeds of the 55% emission reduction…

4 years ago

EC/Austria provide vaccines to western Balkans

Reading Time: < 1 minute The EU behind China and Russia offers COVID-19 jabs for the Western Balkans countries to…

4 years ago

Slovakia: What Lies Beyond Energy Dependence?

Reading Time: 3 minutes Still, there are no significant flows of direct investment between the two, either from Russia into…

4 years ago

Serbia: A Balancing Act

Reading Time: 3 minutes Serbia’s strategic position between East and West has traditionally served as some sort of leverage to…

4 years ago

Romania’s Relations with Moscow: Overloaded with Contentious Issues

Reading Time: 5 minutes Romania is a hardliner against Russian within the EU, and a country almost immune to Russian…

4 years ago

Hungary and its Alliance Forged in the Past

Reading Time: 4 minutes Moscow used Hungary as a gateway to the EU and is consistently uses Russian finances to…

4 years ago

Poland: From Dependence to Falling Trade

Reading Time: 3 minutes Historically, Warsaw has maintained the strongest stance against Russia's efforts to gain political and economic influence,…

4 years ago

Russia-CEE Relations in 2021: Vaccine Diplomacy and Selective Engagement

Reading Time: 5 minutes Despite its historical dominance in Eastern Europe and geopolitical proximity to the EU, Russia remains a…

4 years ago

Regulatory framework a must for hydrogen

As a clean-burning fuel, hydrogen is considered a key element in the EU strategy for decarbonizing Europe's economy. At a…

4 years ago

G20 finance ministers also ponder global corporate tax

Changes to how multinational companies and giant tech firms are taxed globally may be on the horizon, resulting in a…

4 years ago

Forging a new, right-wing EP political alliance

Hungary's prime minister, Viktor Orban, is spearheading the formation of a new European political alliance, which will be more right…

4 years ago

US Sec of State: Nord Stream II Increases Dependence

Germany has long backed Nord Stream II (NS2), which will provide it with more natural gas from Russia - and…

4 years ago

Russia’s FM to Brussels: “We’re done”

This week Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, on a visit to China, declared that Russia's relations with the European Union…

4 years ago

Russian Reports of Agreement to Produce Sputnik V in France Denied

None of France’s pharmaceutical companies have signed a contract with Russia to produce its Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine, a spokesman…

4 years ago

EC Pushes for Digital Sovereignty by the 2030

As part of the 2030 Digital Compass targets, the European Commission aims to introduce a series of benchmarks to be…

4 years ago

Trump’s EU-US Trade War – A Ticking Time Bomb?

Despite striking a deal with the EU on a four-month freeze of the tariffs they slapped on each other over subsidies…

4 years ago