The European Investment Fund (EIF) has signed a microfinance guarantee agreement with ALTUM, Latvia’s state-owned development institution. The agreement, which...
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English-born but proudly Kosovan pop star Dua Lipa is set to headline the Sunny Hill Music Festival in Priština on August 10, the biggest music festival ever to take...
Anna Maria Corazza Bildt, an influential member of the European People’s Party (EPP), the centre-right grouping in the European parliament, has called for the EPP...
The Council of the European Union has added six more companies to the list of those subject to restrictive measures over actions undermining or threatening the...
The European Commission has approved the acquisition of mobile operator Telenor’s assets in central and eastern Europe by the Czech PPF Group, having found that...
UK Secretary of State for Defence Gavin Williamson inspects a Romanian military guard alongside his Romanian counterpart Mihai Fifor in Bucharest on August 2. They spoke...
The World Bank approved a new loan to Croatia on August 1, intended for the Integrated Land Administration System Project (ILAS) in the amount of 19.7 million euros...
The European Investment Fund (EIF) and Bank Polska Kasa Opieki (Bank Pekao) have signed a COSME agreement that will allow the bank to provide 1.2 billion zlotys (around...
The BMW Group announced on July 31 that it is to build a new production facility in Hungary, close to the eastern city of Debrecen. Total investment in the new plant...
The EU’s head of mission in Moldova, Peter Mihalka, has said that the country should not apply a proposed tax reform and capital amnesty bill, which, he claims, is...
A Serb lawyer who helped defend the country’s former dictator Slobodan Milosevic at his war crimes trial has been shot dead. Dragoslav Ognjanovic, 57, was gunned...
With forest fires in Sweden still ablaze several EU countries have sent help to combat the flames. The largest team is from Poland, which has sent 139 firefighters and...
