Bulgaria, North Macedonia PMs hail ‘real results’
Bulgaria and North Macedonia premiers Kiril Petkov and Dimitar Kovacevski discussed establishing regular flights between their two respective capitals Skopje and...
US firm eyes Polish nuclear contract
Westinghouse Electric Company signed strategic partnership agreements with ten Polish engineering and construction firms in connection with its possible development of...
Estonia among least corrupt countries – TI
Estonia and Austria have the cleanest economies in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) according to the latest annual report by the...
Slovakia most resilient on consumption
Household consumption expenditure decreased by an unprecedented 8% in the EU year-on-year in 2020, according to a new survey by the...
CEE baseload electricity prices off the scale
Wholesale electricity prices reached all-time highs in Europe in the third quarter of 2021, spiking by 211% year-on-year, the European Commission...
Poland’s PKN Orlen pursues hydrogen hubs, refueling station network
PKN Orlen will establish nine hydrogen hubs for the production of low carbon fuel to be distributed around Poland, Czechia and...
While Austria makes jabs mandatory, Slovakia, Poland take different road
Adults in Austria will have to obtain COVID:19 jabs as of next month under measures MPs passed by 137 to 33...
Orban, Putin to discuss gas, nuclear, vaccines, ever-closer ties, in Moscow next month
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban will visit Moscow on 1 February to discuss Rosatom’s expansion of Hungary’s sole nuclear power station...
Macron takes aim at Hungary, Poland in EP speech
French President Emmanuel Macron singled out Hungary and Poland in connection with alleged rule of law violations as he outlined the...
EU hails digital act as global model
MEPs voted through the Digital Services Act (DSA) in a plenary vote at the European Parliament on Thursday afternoon. The DSA...
Estonia rues EU energy trades, mulls nuclear
The EU’s CO2 trading mechanism is a“roller-coaster” and fixed-price contracts would stabilise the situation and offer better conditions to electricity sellers,...
Ex-PM Babis’s fate in hands of rival MPs
Former Czech prime minister Andrej Babis could lose immunity from prosecution and face charges of misuse of EU funds when MPs...
Baltic countries CEE’s inflation hot spots
Price rises in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) countries were mostly above the Eurozone average of 4.9% in November, as inflation...
Poland calls out to ‘Fit for 55’ opponents
Poland's right-wing government intends to ally with countries who also oppose the EU’s ‘Fit for 55’ climate package, government spokesperson Piotr...
EIB halts Hungarian govt’s Budapest Airport plans, due to dearth of impact studies
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has suspended a EUR 200 million credit line towards the expansion of Hungary's Budapest Liszt Ferenc...
Voters in Serbia back judicial system reform
Serbia moved a small step closer to EU membership on Sunday when 60.5% of its voters cast their ballot in favour...
Poland top CEE country on university research grant list
Universities in Poland, Austria, Czechia, Slovenia and Lithuania will all run projects under the EU’s new research and innovation programme which...
Fiala gets thumbs-up, vows to back EU
The liberal-conservative cabinet of Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala was approved by a majority of MPs in a confidence vote that...
Croatia tops aviation upturn list – Eurostat
European commercial aviation enjoyed an upturn last month, as the number of flights in the EU climbed 130% year-on-year. While the...
Sell-offs pave way for new Polish energy giant
Polish oil and gas firm PKN Orlen will sell refinery assets to Saudi Aramco and swap petrol stations with Hungarian energy...