V4 & Romania

EU plans to boost semiconductors to the tune of EUR 43bn

The European Commission (EC) unveiled legislation designed to double Europe’s share of the semiconductor industry yesterday. The so-called Chips Act…

3 years ago

Czech PM Fiala to support smaller farms

Czechia’s new government will allocate more EU subsidies to smaller-scale family farms, and fewer to the country’s traditionally dominant large…

3 years ago

EC finds way to make good on Poland’s Turow mine penalty

The European Commission (EC) will withhold approximately EUR 15 million in EU funding from Poland for its refusal to pay…

3 years ago

Slovenia minimum wage nears parity with US

With a EUR 1,074 minimum wage, Slovenia was the only country in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) where a gross…

3 years ago

Hydrogen: a clean energy for the transition

In Europe and in Hungary, initiatives to expand use of hydrogen as an energy source have been given the green…

3 years ago

Czechia withdraws Turow mine complaint

The Czech Republic and Poland made good today on promises made in yesterday’s settlement of the Turow mine dispute. Polish…

3 years ago

Poland, Czechia ink deal on Turow mine

Czechia and Poland signed an agreement regarding the environmentally damaging lignite mine in Turow, western Poland, on Thursday. Under the…

3 years ago

Tried and tested, it works – turning diversity into value

Here in Hungary, company cultures that effectively reduce gender discrimination are taking root, helping women to gain access to management…

3 years ago

Orban discusses Ukraine, gas, nuclear, vaccines with Putin in Moscow

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Russian President Vladimir Putin talked for almost five hours in Moscow on Tuesday, although…

3 years ago

Green groups urge energy reform as gas crisis upends coal phase-out

Soaring natural gas prices last year disrupted the long-term trend of renewable energies and gas replacing coal in Europe, according…

3 years ago