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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg agreed to progress with planning a greater role in coordinating aid to Ukraine on the first of two days of meetings at the NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, on Thursday 4 April, the 75th anniversary of the signing of the defence alliance’s founding document.
The share of renewable sources in gross final energy consumption at the EU level reached 23% in 2022, up 1.1 percentage points (pp) year-on-year, the bloc’s statistics office Eurostat reports. The EU’s revised Renewable Energy Directive has upped the bloc’s 2030 renewable energy target from 32%
Hungary remained the EU’s most inflationary economy with an annual rate of 9.6% in October, an EU statistics office Eurostat report released Friday 17, November revealed. On the upside, this was the first time Hungary’s inflation rate had fallen to single digits since April 2022. The EU’
Automotive and Transport has dropped to third place amongst large companies in CEE, as business sectors of Central and Eastern European (CEE) shifted in size, partly due to soaring commodities prices, the latest Coface CEE Top 500 study found. In its 15th annual study, the French insurance company collects data
Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu visited Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia from November 6-12, deepening bilateral ties in the Baltics and putting Asian geopolitics back up the agenda in Central and Eastern European (CEE). The three Baltic states have adjusted their policy toward People’s Republic of China (PRC) in recent
Evika Silina asked to be judged by her achievements, as she became Latvia’s new prime minister and its second-ever female premier on Friday, 15 September. Silina, 48, is a member of the centre-right party Jauna Vienotiba (New Unity) party that won Latvia’s general election in late 2022 and
Foreign affairs parliamentary committee chairs from Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries including Czechia, Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are amongst the signatories of an open letter calling for more criticism of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic’s Kosovo policy. The letter to the EU and the US, seen by German
Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia agreed on Thursday 3 August to decouple from Russia’s BRELL power grid by February 2025, in order to reach full energy independence from the Kremlin. The three countries in 2018 agreed to integrate into the EU electricity system by the end of 2025, as their
The top 11 inflation rates in the EU were in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) countries in June 2023, according to new data figures published by Eurostat, the EU’s official statistics office. All of the EU member states in CEE registered inflation over the EU average of 6.4%
An apparent attempted coup d’etat led by the head of a mercenary group in Russia over the weekend set off emergency responses across Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) on Sunday, 26 June. Mercenary fighters of the Wagner private army, run by former Putin ally Yevgeny Prigozhin, pressed on across
Austria (26%) and Estonia (23%) had the EU’s highest proportions of organic land within their total utilised agricultural area (UAA) in 2020, according to recent data released by Eurostat. In 2021, the area used for organic farming expanded to 15.9mn hectares (ha) – or just under 10% of the
Poland outstretched all of its EU peers for growth in the first quarter of 2023, the bloc’s official statistics office Eurostat reported in its revised data. In Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) – and Europe as a whole – Poland had the highest growth rate of 3.8%, ahead of Croatia
Only 4.48 million EU citizens aged 15 to 29 found themselves unemployed last year, according to the latest data from the EU’s official statistics agency Eurostat. This constituted 6.3% of those in that age group, a historic low since 2009, it added. The lowest rate in Central
Estonia had the highest employment rate in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) of 81.9% in 2022, according to the recently released data of the EU statistics agency Eurostat. Just behind the Baltic country were Czechia, with 81.3%, and Hungary (80.2%). The middle grouping of the EU member
The number of pay TV subscribers in Eastern Europe will decline by 8mn from its peak of 81mn in 2018, to 73 million by 2028, according to a new report by Digital TV Research. However, the figures for 2018 included 17mn analogue-cable subscribers, which will have dropped to zero by