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...
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New Romania PM underlines support for NATO, vows to cut inflation to single digits
Incoming Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu stressed the importance of the EU and NATO, on Thursday, 15 June, in his first...
New airport to open in Romania this week
Romania will inaugurate its first new airport in over 50 years this week, with the goal of serving over one million...
Poland EU’s best performing economy in Q1
Poland outstretched all of its EU peers for growth in the first quarter of 2023, the bloc's official statistics office Eurostat...
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...
Europe playing catch-up with China in ‘battery battle’ – Romanian economy minister
"Romania, and Europe, have lost the battle with China in certain segments, such as battery production, but we are trying to...
Electric cars overtake diesel in Romania
Electric and hybrid cars are gaining ground in Romania, as the segment represented over 20% of all new cars sold in...
Romania loosens surplus tax on OMV Petrom
Romanian President Klaus Iohannis promulgated the revised law that lays down a "solidarity contribution" from the “excessive profits” of energy companies,...
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...
Romanian farmers hold nationwide protest
Farmers are organising protests across Romania on Friday 7 April to express dissatisfaction with the European Commission (EC) approach market distortions...
Polish PM backs alliance with Romania, Ukraine
Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki laid out his hopes to build a new economic community in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) with...
CEE leaders say EU may need to reintroduce farm tariffs on Ukraine
Romania, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and Slovakia expressed concern in a letter to the European Commission (EC) on Friday over an "unprecedented"...
Hungary could decouple from Russian gas – report
Hungary could realistically replace Russian gas imports, according to local analysts, who say its dependence is reliant on the will of...
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...
Inflation swallows up pay hikes in Romania
The average net salary in Romania was RON 4,254 (EUR 864) in January 2023, up 15% year-on-year, but down RON 144,...
Romanian investments up in 2022 – PM
Net investments in the Romanian economy were 150.1 billion leu (EUR 3.06bn) in 2022, up 8.5% on the previous year, according...
Enel to sell Romanian arm in EUR 1.26bn deal
Enel will sell its Romanian operations to Greek group Public Power Corp (PPC) for EUR 1.26bn, the Italian utility group announced...
Moldovan defence advisor set to become PM
Dorin Recean, a pro-Western defence expert and former interior minister, is expected to become Moldova's new prime minister after receiving Parliament's approval this...
CEE countries ask EU to fund Azeri gas pipelines
Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Slovakia have jointly requested EU funding to develop the necessary infrastructure to support increased gas supplies from...
Estonia top for digital banking usage in 2022, while Romania lags – Eurostat report
More people in Estonia use online banking services than anywhere else in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), according to a new...