Central & Eastern Europe

CEE insurance sector grows by over 10%

The Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) insurance market reached a total of EUR 12.5bn by the end of the first…

8 months ago

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…

11 months ago

Hungary’s Oriens fund buys another Czech retail chain

Hungarian investment holding Oriens is fast becoming a major player in Czech retail, Slovak business daily Hospodarske Noviny (HN) reports.…

11 months ago

Czechia, Hungary, Estonia top for employment in CEE – Eurostat report

Estonia had the highest employment rate in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) of 81.9% in 2022, according to the recently…

1 year ago

Romania holds out on Ukraine import ban, urges neighbours to wait for EU solution

Romanian Minister of Agriculture Petre Daea expressed solidarity with farmers from Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and Slovakia – who all unilaterally…

1 year ago

Lithuania decade’s most improved country in region, leading prosperity report finds

Estonia is named the most prosperous country in Eastern Europe, and the 21st globally, in the newly-released 2023 Legatum Prosperity Index.…

1 year ago

Serbia gets its biggest ever EU grant for Belgrade-Nis rail revamp

Serbia is set to receive a EUR 600mn handout from the EU towards its around EUR 2.2bn reconstruction of the 230km…

1 year ago

EU widens embargo on Russian diesel, oil

The European Union expanded its ban on Russian diesel fuel and refined oil products with immediate effect on Sunday 5…

1 year ago

CEE plans thousands of miles of high-speed rail

Railway infrastructure managers from Czechia, Poland and the Baltics signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) in connection with building almost…

1 year ago

Wizz vs Ryanair: which budget airline rules CEE?

Wizz Air will serve 31% more passengers than Ryanair in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Caucuses this winter, according…

1 year ago