Greece’s largest lender, Piraeus Pank, has sold its Albanian subsidiary Tirana Bank to Balfin Group and North Macedonia’s Komercijana Banka. Piraeus said it...
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The opposition centre-right Reform Party, which ran a campaign promising to lower taxes, has won Estonia’s general election, beating the ruling Centre Party...
A selection of articles about emerging Europe published elsewhere this week, all of which caught our eye and all of which are well worth your time. Listing them here...
Latvia is one of just a handful of countries with a perfect score in a new World Bank index looking at women’s legal rights affecting work. The index, part of the...
Romania should improve the implementation of laws and ensure funding to effectively protect the rights of persons with disabilities and protect women from violence, a...
An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team, led by Deputy Division Chief Mercedes Vera-Martin, has concluded its latest visit to Georgia during which recent economic and...
Patrizio Bianchi, the minister for European policies, education, professional training, university research and work in the government of the Italian region of Emilia...
Kosovan Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj has ordered an immediate halt to the construction of a hydropower plant on the Lumbardhi river. The prime minister’s...
The European Investment Fund (EIF) and Capitalia have signed a guarantee agreement to support small businesses in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, with a total of 10...
Thousands of protesters supporting Albania’s opposition surrounded the country’s parliament on February 21 and demanded the resignation of prime minister Edi Rama...
Organisational restructuring, tariff reforms, and strategic use of digital technologies would boost the competitiveness of the Belarusian railway sector, improving the...
Estonia has told Danske Bank to close its branch in Tallinn before the end of 2019 after a money-laundering scandal. The move follows the publication of a report last...
