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Latvia reimposes lockdown as COVID rips through Baltics and Balkans

Latvia has announced a month-long COVID lockdown after a surge in infections and hospitalisations, becoming the first EU country to…

3 years ago

Czech startup raises over USD 100m in record “Series A” venture capital round

Czech start-up Rossum will receive USD 100 million in venture capital from a consortium - including General Catalyst, one of the…

3 years ago

Czech legislators plan power transfer, as Zeman unable to perform presidential duties

Czech President Milos Zeman - who was hospitalised on 10 October, the morning after the general election - remains incapable…

3 years ago

Russia cuts diplomatic relations with NATO

Russia has announced that it will suspend its NATO mission in Brussels after the western military alliance expelled eight employees…

3 years ago

There is little alternative to Russian gas for Eastern Europe – Hungary signs 10+5-year deal

Russian state-owned Gazprom and Hungarian energy group MVM signed a ten-year gas-supply agreement at the end of August. Under the deal,…

3 years ago

Czech government could sink millions into ‘Three Seas’ waterway project

After years of non-engagement, the outgoing Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis appears to have discovered a new-found enthusiasm for the…

3 years ago

V4 vie to attract VW battery plant

Volkswagen will decide on the location of a new battery cell plant in Central and Eastern Europe in the first…

3 years ago

Mayor Peter Marki-Zay wins primary vote to run against PM Orban in spring 2022

Peter Marki-Zay, the 49-year-old conservative mayor of Hodmezovasarhely, south Hungary, was announced as the winner of the Hungarian opposition primaries…

3 years ago

CEE capitals becoming ‘victims of own success’

Slovakia's capital city Bratislava is having difficulty getting EU funding after the rapid rise in its GDP per capita in…

3 years ago

Rising bills bring extra bite to Baltic winter

For the citizens of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia, the signs are ominous. As the Baltic countries look ahead to rising…

3 years ago