Romania’s top banker – ‘close tax loopholes’
National Bank of Romania (BNR) chief economist Valentin Lazea warned that the country’s ballooning deficit could make it "the next candidate...
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...
NATO chief announces 8.3% hike in defence spending, ahead of major Vilnius summit
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda held a joint press conference on Monday, 10 July, the day...
EU needs EUR 700bn/year to meet climate goals
Europe will require annual investments of more than EUR 700bn (USD 762.44bn) to meet its energy transition goals to combat climate...
Nuclear, natural gas volumes fell in EU in 2022
Natural gas prices skyrocketed in the second half of 2021 and 2022, as sanctions on imports from Russia, disturbances in natural gas supply...
Duda lays out priorities ahead of NATO summit
Polish President Andrzej Duda outlined five key areas for action for NATO on Tuesday, after international consultations in The Hague, The...
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...
CEE leaders react to Russian revolt
An apparent attempted coup d'etat led by the head of a mercenary group in Russia over the weekend set off emergency...
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...
Poland announces massive new Intel plant in ‘Lower Silesian Silicon Valley’
US firm Intel plans to build a semiconductor production and testing plant at Miekinia, near Wroclaw, western Poland, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said...
Sberbank leaves Austria, completing EU exit
Russian bank Sberbank announced its complete withdrawal from the European banking market with the sale of its remaining shares in a EU member...
Poland set to build first agrivoltaic farm
Poland's first agrivoltaic farm, with a target 1GW capacity could be constructed in northern Poland, Gazeta Wyborcza reported Sunday, 18 June. German green...
New Romania PM underlines support for NATO, vows to cut inflation to single digits
Incoming Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu stressed the importance of the EU and NATO, on Thursday, 15 June, in his first...
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...
New airport to open in Romania this week
Romania will inaugurate its first new airport in over 50 years this week, with the goal of serving over one million...
Czech gov’t unveils radical green energy plan
Czechia is poised to start a massive construction of solar and wind power plants to secure cheap and ecological electricity supply,...
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...