Romania’s top banker – ‘close tax loopholes’

1 year ago

National Bank of Romania (BNR) chief economist Valentin Lazea warned that the country’s ballooning deficit could make it "the next…

CEE countries vote though green battery rules

1 year ago

EU members agreed to tighten sustainability regulations for batteries, with an almost unanimous vote at the Council of the EU,…

NATO chief announces 8.3% hike in defence spending, ahead of major Vilnius summit

1 year ago

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda held a joint press conference on Monday, 10 July, the…

EU needs EUR 700bn/year to meet climate goals

1 year ago

Europe will require annual investments of more than EUR 700bn (USD 762.44bn) to meet its energy transition goals to combat…

Nuclear, natural gas volumes fell in EU in 2022

1 year ago

Natural gas prices skyrocketed in the second half of 2021 and 2022, as sanctions on imports from Russia, disturbances in natural gas…

Duda lays out priorities ahead of NATO summit

1 year ago

Polish President Andrzej Duda outlined five key areas for action for NATO on Tuesday, after international consultations in The Hague,…

CEE needs to prioritise climate plans – report

1 year ago

Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries may hinder the EU's ability to meet its climate goals, according to campaigners who…

Romania polls lowest consumer prices in EU, followed by Bulgaria, Poland

1 year ago

Romania last year recorded the EU’s lowest level of prices for consumer goods and services in households, 42% below the…

China begins largest-ever hydropower project in CEE

1 year ago

The ceremonial groundbreaking event took place on Friday in the Republika Srpska (RS) entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) for…

CEE leaders react to Russian revolt

1 year ago

An apparent attempted coup d'etat led by the head of a mercenary group in Russia over the weekend set off…

Big win for right-wing in Greek elections

1 year ago

Greek conservative leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis's gamble paid off on Sunday, as he won a landslide victory in the country's second…

Austria, Estonia, Croatia high on organic farmland rankings

2 years ago

Austria (26%) and Estonia (23%) had the EU’s highest proportions of organic land within their total utilised agricultural area (UAA)…

Poland announces massive new Intel plant in ‘Lower Silesian Silicon Valley’

2 years ago

US firm Intel plans to build a semiconductor production and testing plant at Miekinia, near Wroclaw, western Poland, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki…

Sberbank leaves Austria, completing EU exit

2 years ago

Russian bank Sberbank announced its complete withdrawal from the European banking market with the sale of its remaining shares in a EU…

Poland set to build first agrivoltaic farm

2 years ago

Poland's first agrivoltaic farm, with a target 1GW capacity could be constructed in northern Poland, Gazeta Wyborcza reported Sunday, 18 June.  German…

New Romania PM underlines support for NATO, vows to cut inflation to single digits

2 years ago

Incoming Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu stressed the importance of the EU and NATO, on Thursday, 15 June, in his…

Montenegro election returns pro-EU leader who pledges to join bloc within five years

2 years ago

Montenegrin President Jakov Milatovic will remain the world's second-youngest state leader, it was confirmed at the Balkan country's parliamentary elections…

New airport to open in Romania this week

2 years ago

Romania will inaugurate its first new airport in over 50 years this week, with the goal of serving over one…

Czech gov’t unveils radical green energy plan

2 years ago

Czechia is poised to start a massive construction of solar and wind power plants to secure cheap and ecological electricity…

Poland EU’s best performing economy in Q1

2 years ago

Poland outstretched all of its EU peers for growth in the first quarter of 2023, the bloc's official statistics office…