Several EU Countries Call to Strengthen Common Biofuel Oversight
In a joint statement sent to the European Commission, five member states have issued a call to establish stricter supervision of...
Hungary Reduces Tax Rate on Cryptocurrencies
Pushed through by state secretary Norbert Izer and communicated by the Ministry of Finance as a success story, Hungary has reduced...
Plastics Study Singles Out 20 Polluters
Twenty companies are responsible for producing more than half of all the single-use plastic waste in the world, fuelling the climate...
How a Slovak “brAIn” is Revolutionizing Renewable Energy Consumption
Known as the “Airbnb of clean energy” and “brAIn,” the Slovak startup Fuergy is a Central European success story in the...
EU Summit: New Sanctions Against Belarus Agreed
After what is being called the hijacking of a Ryanair flight from Athens-Vilnius on Sunday, heads of state and governments of...
Drone Driven Agro-Machine Learning Helps Farmers
A Ukrainian start-up, Horos.ai promises to help farmers maximize yield, and minimize herbicide and water use with drone technology-driven machine learning....
QR Code Covid Passes set to Debut
Following extensive debate between the European Parliament and Council, lawmakers in Brussels have reached an agreement on QR code Covid certificates...
Ryanair Publicly Challenges Croatia Airlines
Low-cost carrier Ryanair, which will open bases in Zagreb and Zadar this summer, has slammed Croatia Airlines’ recent complaints that the...
Emplocity: Automated Candidate Sourcing from Poland
Young entrepreneurs from Poland have developed applications based on artificial intelligence and machine learning to come up with what they believe...
New EC Proposal for Unified EU Corporate Tax
Following two failed attempts in 2011 and 2016, this week the EU Commission presented its plans for the unification of the...
Ambitious Hungarian Biotech Firm Fights Cancer With AI
“Turbine,” a biotech company simulating cell behavior with artificial intelligence, is combining two disciplines for which the country is renowned: biology...
Partial Greenlight for Nord Stream 2 Pipeline Construction
After being halted in April due to environmental concerns, the construction of 2 km of the Nord Stream 2 natural gas...
Europeans Want More Ambitious Climate Targets
Public opinion in the EU strongly supports more ambitious national climate targets, according to a poll conducted in 12 European countries....
Hungarian Atomic Energy Authority to Become “Independent”
According to a new draft law, Hungary's Atomic Energy Authority – also responsible for the Paks 2 nuclear power plant investment...
Plan to Decarbonize Steel Production in Slovakia
Slovakia now has plans for a drastic reduction of the emissions of its steel mill in the city of Košice, following...
“Wise” Emerges Out of Need and a Region’s Resourcefulness
Central and Eastern Europeans were forced to live under a communist regime for four decades, which hindered their development and broke...
Bulgaria: President Appoints Caretaker Government
Bulgaria's president's Security and Defence Secretary, Stefan Yanev, will be the prime minister of Bulgaria's caretaker government. President Rumen Radev has...
Hungarian Start-ups: Tech-heavy and Optimistic
More than 60% of Hungarian start-ups are using some sort of “deep tech,” according to the Hungarian Start-up Report conducted by...
“EPPO” to Tamp Down on Europe-wide Corruption
As head of the new Luxembourg-based European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO), Laura Codruta Kovesi is poised to lead a Europe-wide effort...
Khodorkovsky to MEPs About pro-Kremlin’s Influence in the EU
Exiled businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky at a public hearing of the European Parliment told to MEPs: Russia has recruited allies in Angela...