The European Commission has hailed Georgia’s strong commitment to political association to and economic integration with the EU, and substantial progress in...
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Orbico, one of the largest distributors of consumer goods in Central and Eastern Europe, has agreed a deal to buy 60 per cent of Romania’s leading distributor...
Improving the business environment and strengthening entrepreneurship in Belarus are the main goals of two advisory programmes on private sector development, launched on...
The International Finance Corporation, a member of the World Bank Group, is providing a 55 million-euro loan to Garanti Bank Romania to help finance small and medium...
The world’s largest social network, Facebook, has announced plans to open a content review centre in the Bulgarian capital Sofia. The media giant will work...
Estonia has been named as the least corrupt country in emerging Europe in the latest Corruption Perceptions Index, published by Transparency International. The Baltic...
A coalition of environmental groups has criticised moves by the Polish state-owned forestry company to restart commercial logging in the Białowieża Forest in eastern...
Almost 9.3 million people visited Bulgaria in 2018, a 4.4 per cent increase on 2017. NSI, the country’s statistics institute, released the figure – an all...
The European Investment Fund (EIF) and the Croatian Bank for Reconstruction and Development (HBOR) are launching a 70 million-euro investment programme to support fast...
The European Commission has ruled that Poland’s 36 million-euro investment aid to chemical company LG Chem for a new electric vehicle batteries plant in the...
New data from Eurostat, the European Union’s statistics department, have revealed that housing prices in Slovenia rose 15.1 per cent year-on-year in the third...
A selection of articles about emerging Europe published elsewhere this week, all of which are well worth your time. The US has invested a lot of political capital in...
