In a new evaluation report the Council of Europe’s Group of States against corruption (GRECO) has called on Latvia to reinvigorate integrity in top executive functions...
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Slovenia’s parliament has nominated a former comedian, Marjan Šarec, to be the country’s new prime minister. Mr Šarec was backed by 55 of the country’s 90 MPs. He will...
The president of Belarus, Aleksander Lukashenko, has sacked the country’s prime minister Andrei Kobyakov, who had been in the job since 2014. He has been replaced...
Seasonally adjusted GDP rose by 0.4 per cent in both the euro area (EA19) and the EU28 during the second quarter of 2018, compared with the previous quarter, according...
The European Union has called Ukraine’s adoption of the legislation to establish a High Anti-Corruption Court a positive development, and has stated that it is...
Bittnet, a leader in Romanian IT training and integrator of IT solutions, has completed the purchase of a 25 per cent stake in Equatorial Gaming, a game-based learning...
Nova Ljubljanska Banka (NLB), Slovenia’s largest lender, has been given the nod by the European Commission (EC) to sell a first tranche of shares (equal to at least 50...
Putting migration on the table in future trade talks and ensuring EU workers are not subject to burdensome non-EU visa rules are two key recommendations included in Open...
Moldova’s socialist president Igor Dodon said on August 9 that he will promulgate a controversial law which allows for an amnesty of all undeclared income and...
HB Reavis, a real estate developer active mainly in Slovakia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, the United Kingdom and Germany, has sold its two office buildings in...
In a new report released on August 9, the Council of Europe’s anti-corruption monitoring body GRECO finds that Macedonia has made no substantial progress in implementing...
The Lithuanian Competition Council has approved the acquisition of Nelja Energia, an operator of wind farms in Estonia and Lithuania, by Enefit Green, the renewable...
