V4 & Romania

‘Poland’s 7/11’ plans IPO, regional expansion

Zabka is planning an initial public offering (IPO) on the Warsaw Stock Exchange on 17 October, as Poland’s leading convenience…

6 months ago

Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland to ask EU to cofund ‘Baltic Defence Line’

Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland are seeking EU financial support for a coordinated network of military fortifications along their borders…

6 months ago

Czech ‘crisis manager’ Sikela to helm EU’s answer to China’s Belt and Road Initiative

Czechia's former industry minister and crisis manager Jozef Sikela has been appointed to lead the EU’s EUR 300bn Global Gateway…

6 months ago

Babis wins Senate seats, but Fiala retains control

Czech opposition party ANO, led by former prime minister Andrej Babis, scored a significant victory in Saturday’s elections for the…

6 months ago

MOL inks gas exploration deal in Azerbaijan

Hungary's MOL Group, along with its joint venture partners, has signed commercial agreements to advance the development of significant gas…

6 months ago

Intel postpones EUR 4bn Polish factory plan

US firm Intel has decided to delay its semiconductor plant project near Wroclaw, west Poland, until 2026 due to the…

6 months ago

Korean firm to build EUR 16bn Czech nuclear plant

South Korea’s Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) will lead Czechia's largest-ever investment project when the Central and Eastern Europe…

6 months ago

Slovakia hikes VAT to among EU’s highest

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico on Wednesday, September 18, reversed decades of opposition to tax hikes as his government amended…

6 months ago

Orlen inks deal to secure LNG supplies to Poland, Baltics

Poland’s strategic energy giant PKN Orlen has signed a five-year exclusive deal with Lithuanian energy terminal operator KN Energies to…

7 months ago

Poland leads CEE wave of UK legacy firm buyouts

Polish online platform eSky’s GBP 30mn (EUR 35.5mn) purchase of Thomas Cook from China’s Fosun Tourism Group signals a broader…

7 months ago