Bulgaria gets reduced gas price from Gazprom before elections
Ahead of parliamentary and presidential elections in Bulgaria, Russian gas giant Gazprom has gone against market trends, giving Bulgaria's state-run Bulgargaz...
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Chinese, French firms to start building Belgrade’s first metro line
At a cost of roughly EUR 4 billion, a section of Belgrade's metro system should be operational by 2028, according to...
CEE region outperforms expectations in e-culture index
Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) countries are over-achievers regarding ‘digital quality of life’, according to the latest Digital Quality of Life...
Poland u-turns on COP26 pledge to phase out coal
Polish Climate and Environment minister Anna Moskwa appeared to reverse Poland's commitment to cutting coal power by 2030 on Thursday, just...
Big coalition expected before Bulgaria’s third election in a year
Bulgarians will go to the polls for the third time in a year as a result of the country's severe political...
Visegrad 4 leaders pitch high-speed railway construction project to South Korea
Leaders of the Visegrad 4 (V4) group of countries - Czechia, Hungary, Slovakia and Poland - have invited South Korea’s industries...
South Korea, Visegrad 4 countries upgrade successful economic collaboration during president’s visit
South Korea’s president and representatives of the Visegrad 4 (V4) group countries have pledged to boost their economic cooperation in the...
Romania may pioneer construction of US ‘small nuclear reactors’
Romania could become the first country to deploy a small modular nuclear reactor (SMR), according to an agreement between the country’s...
EU delegation’s visit to Taiwan strengthens relations, raises Beijing’s ire
In the first visit to Taiwan by an official European Union delegation, 13 MEPs have met with Taiwanese premier Su Tseng-chang...
Slovakia, South Korea sign MOU on aircraft acquisition, as Korean president deepens V4 ties
In conjunction with South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s 9-day tour of Europe, Slovakia and South Korea have inked a memorandum of...
Czechia on course for five-party coalition
Czechia looks set to be ruled by a liberal, centre-right coalition after five parties agreed on a joint programme on Tuesday,...
Visiting South Korean president looks to boost business with Visegrad 4
South Korea's president, Moon Jae-in, begins a 9-day tour of Europe this week, ending with a meeting of the regional "Visegrad...
E-cig traders to receive damages for lost earnings
Hungarian entrepreneurs who were left out of pocket due to the nationalisation of tobacconists finally look set to receive compensation for...
China’s Alibaba outdoes Amazon in Eastern Europe
China's Alibaba has high hopes for increasing its slice of the online retail pie in Europe and has plans to use...
Rail Baltica: no disruptions for Latvia, Lithuania – but Estonia changes timetable
It has been hailed in the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as their most ambitious shared project for a...
Croatian premier u-turns on Eurozone
"The benefits of euro adoption would outweigh the disadvantages," Croatian President Zoran Milanovic announced after meeting George Vella, his opposite number in Malta,...
China FM tours Europe as Taiwanese diplomat visits Czechia, Slovakia
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi commenced a whistlestop diplomatic tour of Europe yesterday in Greece, where he met his opposite number...
Poland faces daily fine of EUR 1 million per day until it dissolves controversial chamber
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) on Wednesday ordered Poland to pay EUR 1 million on a daily basis for not...
Estonian minister says flexible energy trades could ease soaring prices
Loosening the EU's Emissions Trading System (ETS) would lessen the currently dramatic rises in energy prices, Estonia's Economy and Infrastructure Minister...
Ex-Croatia PM, MOL chief get jail terms for INA bribery case
Croatia's Supreme Court sentenced MOL chairman-CEO Zsolt Hernadi and the country's former prime minister Ivo Sanader to prison sentences for bribery...