Green groups urge energy reform as gas crisis upends coal phase-out

3 years ago

Soaring natural gas prices last year disrupted the long-term trend of renewable energies and gas replacing coal in Europe, according…

EU beats 2020 sustainable energy target, with Latvia, Austria, Croatia CEE’s greenest

3 years ago

As the EU surpassed its target of 20% sustainable energy usage in 2020, the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) high…

Austria’s mandatory jabs regime comes into force

3 years ago

Austria loosened its movement restrictions on unvaccinated people on Monday, with a compulsory vaccination policy due to enter into force…

Polish population drops 1% in a decade

3 years ago

The population of Poland has fallen 1% in the last ten years, according to the country’s 2021 census data, which…

CEE countries progress towards OECD

3 years ago

Romania’s GDP should grow 4.5% both this year and next, after a 6.3% expansion last year, according to a report…

Czech salaries rising by up to one-fifth

3 years ago

Private sector wages in Czechia are rising by as much as 20%, Czech Radio found when it interviewed employment industry…

Robots not killing jobs in CEE – researchers

3 years ago

Increasing robotisation does not lead to more layoffs, according to a newly released study of worker flows in Central and…

Will hydrogen save Europe during the energy transition?

3 years ago

One well-known energy resource has great potential as an increasingly cost-effective source of clean energy: namely, hydrogen. It can play…

Bulgaria, North Macedonia PMs hail ‘real results’

3 years ago

Bulgaria and North Macedonia premiers Kiril Petkov and Dimitar Kovacevski discussed establishing regular flights between their two respective capitals Skopje…

US firm eyes Polish nuclear contract

3 years ago

Westinghouse Electric Company signed strategic partnership agreements with ten Polish engineering and construction firms in connection with its possible development…

Estonia among least corrupt countries – TI

3 years ago

Estonia and Austria have the cleanest economies in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) according to the latest annual report by…

Slovakia most resilient on consumption

3 years ago

Household consumption expenditure decreased by an unprecedented 8% in the EU year-on-year in 2020, according to a new survey by…

CEE baseload electricity prices off the scale

3 years ago

Wholesale electricity prices reached all-time highs in Europe in the third quarter of 2021, spiking by 211% year-on-year, the European…

Poland’s PKN Orlen pursues hydrogen hubs, refueling station network

3 years ago

PKN Orlen will establish nine hydrogen hubs for the production of low carbon fuel to be distributed around Poland, Czechia…

While Austria makes jabs mandatory, Slovakia, Poland take different road

3 years ago

Adults in Austria will have to obtain COVID:19 jabs as of next month under measures MPs passed by 137 to…

Orban, Putin to discuss gas, nuclear, vaccines, ever-closer ties, in Moscow next month

3 years ago

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban will visit Moscow on 1 February to discuss Rosatom’s expansion of Hungary’s sole nuclear power…

Macron takes aim at Hungary, Poland in EP speech

3 years ago

French President Emmanuel Macron singled out Hungary and Poland in connection with alleged rule of law violations as he outlined…

EU hails digital act as global model

3 years ago

MEPs voted through the Digital Services Act (DSA) in a plenary vote at the European Parliament on Thursday afternoon. The…

Estonia rues EU energy trades, mulls nuclear

3 years ago

The EU’s CO2 trading mechanism is a“roller-coaster” and fixed-price contracts would stabilise the situation and offer better conditions to electricity…

Ex-PM Babis’s fate in hands of rival MPs

3 years ago

Former Czech prime minister Andrej Babis could lose immunity from prosecution and face charges of misuse of EU funds when…