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...
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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...
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, is providing a 12.5 million-euro loan to the city of Mariupol, Ukraine, to purchase 64...
Erste Bank’s Serbian division has raised 3.5 billion dinars (29.64 million euros) via the sale of 350,000 two-year bonds. The bonds have a variable yield of the...
Ukraine will increase the share of renewables in its energy mix thanks to a new solar plant in the Mykolaiv region in the south of the country financed by the European...