Multi-billion deal sees Emirati operator acquire telco assets in four CEE countries
Emirates Telecommunication Group Company (e&) will buy a 50% plus one share in PPF Group’s telecommunications assets in Bulgaria (mobile operator...
Balkan countries
Sanctions cannot bring Russia to its knees – MOL CEO
Only 6% of Ukrainian diesel imports come from Hungary, the head of Hungarian energy giant MOL said at a conference on...
Hungary tops EU inflation list for June
The top 11 inflation rates in the EU were in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) countries in June 2023, according to...
Bulgarian fintech unicorn Payhawk opens Vilnius office
Payment management platform Payhawk - Bulgaria's only unicorn - has opened a new office in Vilnius, Lithuania, it announced on Monday,...
CEE countries vote though green battery rules
EU members agreed to tighten sustainability regulations for batteries, with an almost unanimous vote at the Council of the EU, on...
CEE needs to prioritise climate plans – report
Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries may hinder the EU's ability to meet its climate goals, according to campaigners who are...
Romania polls lowest consumer prices in EU, followed by Bulgaria, Poland
Romania last year recorded the EU’s lowest level of prices for consumer goods and services in households, 42% below the EU...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 current...
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 stopped...
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 in...
Bulgaria election ends in stalemate, but gains for pro-Russian party
Bulgaria's conservatives and liberals were practically neck and neck with votes still being counted after the country's fifth election in two...
Montenegrin leader ousted after 32 years
Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic lost the presidential election run-off on Sunday, 2 April, ending his 32-year rule that began in February...