China begins largest-ever hydropower project in CEE
The ceremonial groundbreaking event took place on Friday in the Republika Srpska (RS) entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) for the...
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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...
Big win for right-wing in Greek elections
Greek conservative leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis's gamble paid off on Sunday, as he won a landslide victory in the country's second election...
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...
Poland announces massive new Intel plant in ‘Lower Silesian Silicon Valley’
US firm Intel plans to build a semiconductor production and testing plant at Miekinia, near Wroclaw, western Poland, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said...
Sberbank leaves Austria, completing EU exit
Russian bank Sberbank announced its complete withdrawal from the European banking market with the sale of its remaining shares in a EU member...
Poland set to build first agrivoltaic farm
Poland's first agrivoltaic farm, with a target 1GW capacity could be constructed in northern Poland, Gazeta Wyborcza reported Sunday, 18 June. German green...
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...
Montenegro election returns pro-EU leader who pledges to join bloc within five years
Montenegrin President Jakov Milatovic will remain the world's second-youngest state leader, it was confirmed at the Balkan country's parliamentary elections on...
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...
Czech gov’t unveils radical green energy plan
Czechia is poised to start a massive construction of solar and wind power plants to secure cheap and ecological electricity supply,...
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...
Huge crowd in Warsaw protests ruling party ahead of autumn election
A massive mobilisation of Polish opposition voters and leaders estimated at up to half a million people took to the streets of...
Hungary’s Oriens fund buys another Czech retail chain
Hungarian investment holding Oriens is fast becoming a major player in Czech retail, Slovak business daily Hospodarske Noviny (HN) reports. Oriens...
EU shows united front vs Russia as Moldova edges closer to membership
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called Moldova “the political heart of Europe”, when she met Moldovan President Maia Sandu in...
CEE leaders respond to Erdogan victory in Turkey
Leaders in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) congratulated Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after his re-election on Sunday, 28 May, after...
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...
A new sector emerges in CEE, as companies anticipate compulsory ESG reports
Having committed to becoming the first climate-neutral continent by 2050, the EU faces a major challenge and companies will have 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...