Balkan countries

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…

1 year ago

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)…

1 year ago

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…

1 year ago

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…

1 year ago

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,…

1 year ago

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…

1 year ago

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…

2 years ago

Czechs right to opt out of Ukraine farm ban – analysts

Agriculture Minister Zdenek Nekula is right when he says Czech farmers are overplaying the role of Ukrainian wheat on their…

2 years ago

Romania holds out on Ukraine import ban, urges neighbours to wait for EU solution

Romanian Minister of Agriculture Petre Daea expressed solidarity with farmers from Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and Slovakia – who all unilaterally…

2 years ago

Croatia tops European tourism poll

Croatia had the highest share of tourism in total gross value added (GVA) at 11%, EU statistics office Eurostat finds…

2 years ago