Our weekly digest 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...
Emerging Europe Staff
The byline Emerging Europe Staff is used to denote articles to which several members of the Emerging Europe editorial team may have contributed. It may also occasionally be used to protect the identity of staff reporting from conflict zones or discussing contentious issues.
In the face of rapid population ageing, governments must promote more and better job opportunities at an older age to protect living standards and the sustainability of...
Vilnius Factoring, a Lithuanian private lending company, has signed a cooperation agreement with the European Investment Fund (EIF) to issue microloans of up to 25,000...
US President Donald Trump announced on August 29 that he is canceling a planned trip to Poland in order to deal with the threat currently being posed by Hurricane Dorian...
Companies and consumers across Europe are potentially facing a surge in online payment failures as the September deadline to implement PSD2, or the Revised Payment...
German automotive components manufacturer Draxlmaier has opened a 30 million-euro plant in the Cahul Free Economic Zone, in southwestern Moldova. It is the...
New figures from Statistics Estonia have revealed that average monthly wages in the country jumped to 1,419 euros in the second quarter of this year, a 5.9 per cent...
The Slovenian prime minister, Marjan Šarec, has said that the country needs a new labour force and that a new agreement with Serbia, which will regulate the employment...
Kosovo’s president, Hashim Thaçi, has announced that the country will hold a parliamentary election on October 6. “Kosovo needs a functional and accountable...
New figures from Eurostat have revealed that Poland accounts for 30 per cent of the European Union’s annual consumption of coal. In 2017, Poland burnt 73.8 million...
Electric car manufacturer Tesla has announced that its Model 3, Model S and Model X cars can now be ordered by customers in Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovenia...
Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili has called an election in the Russian-occupied region of Abkhazia “a sham.” “The Abkhaz authorities are de facto...
