Bulgaria gets reduced gas price from Gazprom before elections
Ahead of parliamentary and presidential elections in Bulgaria, Russian gas giant Gazprom has gone against market trends, giving Bulgaria's state-run Bulgargaz...
International, CEE community on high alert as Bosnia and Herzegovina teeters on brink
The Balkans are in danger of instability as the multi-ethnic state of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) looks at risk of disintegration,...
Chinese, French firms to start building Belgrade’s first metro line
At a cost of roughly EUR 4 billion, a section of Belgrade's metro system should be operational by 2028, according to...
CEE region outperforms expectations in e-culture index
Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) countries are over-achievers regarding ‘digital quality of life’, according to the latest Digital Quality of Life...
Big coalition expected before Bulgaria’s third election in a year
Bulgarians will go to the polls for the third time in a year as a result of the country's severe political...
Visegrad 4 leaders pitch high-speed railway construction project to South Korea
Leaders of the Visegrad 4 (V4) group of countries - Czechia, Hungary, Slovakia and Poland - have invited South Korea’s industries...
South Korea, Visegrad 4 countries upgrade successful economic collaboration during president’s visit
South Korea’s president and representatives of the Visegrad 4 (V4) group countries have pledged to boost their economic cooperation in the...
Romania may pioneer construction of US ‘small nuclear reactors’
Romania could become the first country to deploy a small modular nuclear reactor (SMR), according to an agreement between the country’s...
EU delegation’s visit to Taiwan strengthens relations, raises Beijing’s ire
In the first visit to Taiwan by an official European Union delegation, 13 MEPs have met with Taiwanese premier Su Tseng-chang...
Slovakia, South Korea sign MOU on aircraft acquisition, as Korean president deepens V4 ties
In conjunction with South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s 9-day tour of Europe, Slovakia and South Korea have inked a memorandum of...
Czechia on course for five-party coalition
Czechia looks set to be ruled by a liberal, centre-right coalition after five parties agreed on a joint programme on Tuesday,...
Visiting South Korean president looks to boost business with Visegrad 4
South Korea's president, Moon Jae-in, begins a 9-day tour of Europe this week, ending with a meeting of the regional "Visegrad...
North Macedonia PM Zaev quits after local election rout
North Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev announced his resignation after his party, the Social Democratic Union of Macedonia (SDSM), suffered a...
E-cig traders to receive damages for lost earnings
Hungarian entrepreneurs who were left out of pocket due to the nationalisation of tobacconists finally look set to receive compensation for...
China’s Alibaba outdoes Amazon in Eastern Europe
China's Alibaba has high hopes for increasing its slice of the online retail pie in Europe and has plans to use...
Croatian premier u-turns on Eurozone
"The benefits of euro adoption would outweigh the disadvantages," Croatian President Zoran Milanovic announced after meeting George Vella, his opposite number in Malta,...
China FM tours Europe as Taiwanese diplomat visits Czechia, Slovakia
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi commenced a whistlestop diplomatic tour of Europe yesterday in Greece, where he met his opposite number...
EU microchip financing plan lags behind on the global scene
Despite the European Union’s explicit plans to prepare a subsidy package for the microchip industry that matches with United States investments...
Estonian minister says flexible energy trades could ease soaring prices
Loosening the EU's Emissions Trading System (ETS) would lessen the currently dramatic rises in energy prices, Estonia's Economy and Infrastructure Minister...
Italy uses ‘golden power’ to block another strategic asset sale to foreign interests
Italy has blocked the purchase of global seed producer Verisem by a Chinese-owned group. As part of Prime Minister Mario Draghi's...