Hungary tops EU inflation list for June
The top 11 inflation rates in the EU were in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) countries in June 2023, according to...
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CEE leaders react to Russian revolt
An apparent attempted coup d'etat led by the head of a mercenary group in Russia over the weekend set off emergency...
Austria, Estonia, Croatia high on organic farmland rankings
Austria (26%) and Estonia (23%) had the EU’s highest proportions of organic land within their total utilised agricultural area (UAA) in...
EU youth unemployment lowest since 2009
Only 4.48 million EU citizens aged 15 to 29 found themselves unemployed last year, according to the latest data from the...
Czechia, Hungary, Estonia top for employment in CEE – Eurostat report
Estonia had the highest employment rate in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) of 81.9% in 2022, according to the recently released...
Mixed prospects in region for pay-TV industry, new research finds
The number of pay TV subscribers in Eastern Europe will decline by 8mn from its peak of 81mn in 2018, to...
Poland, Baltic states meet NATO’s 2% target
NATO's annual report for 2022 reveals that only 7 countries of the 30-country defence alliance met the military spending target of...
Kallas wins big in Estonian election
Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas’s Reform Party (ER) secured both the most votes and most seats ever in a national election...
Lithuania decade’s most improved country in region, leading prosperity report finds
Estonia is named the most prosperous country in Eastern Europe, and the 21st globally, in the newly-released 2023 Legatum Prosperity Index. Legatum’s...
Kallas ahead in polls as Estonians cast their ballots
Estonian voters go to the polls on Sunday 5 March, after a campaign that focussed on the country's cost of living...
Pavel not hopeful on Ukraine victory this year
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged the Western world to send more help when he opened the Munich Security Conference (MSC) from...
Joint letter says Russian assets should rebuild Ukraine
Leaders from the Baltic nations and Poland have called for the utilization of approximately EUR 300bn worth of assets from the...
CEE plans thousands of miles of high-speed rail
Railway infrastructure managers from Czechia, Poland and the Baltics signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) in connection with building almost 2,800...
Baltic inflation ‘canary in the coal mine’ for rest of Europe in 2023
The three Baltic countries are the worst hit by the wave of inflation in Europe, according to the latest flash estimate from the...
Poland, Baltics opt in on green hydrogen corridor project
The national grid operators of Poland and the three Baltic countries signed a cooperation agreement with their German and Nordic peers...
Wizz vs Ryanair: which budget airline rules CEE?
Wizz Air will serve 31% more passengers than Ryanair in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Caucuses this winter, according a...
Estonia tops tax competitiveness index
For the ninth consecutive year, Estonia has the best tax regime of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries, according to...
Venture capital investment in CEE doubled in two years – report
Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) is one of the fastest growing regions in Europe by enterprise value and has grown by...
Gov’t interventions see Poland, Slovenia, Hungary buck H1 electricity bills trend
Household electricity prices rose year-on-year in the first half of 2022, from EUR 22 per to EUR 25.30 per 100 kWh...
Latvia, Estonia choose location for giant wind farm
Estonia's Sõrve peninsula area looks set to be the location for the major Estonian-Latvian hybrid offshore wind farm project ‘Elwind’, according...