Finding a balance between encouraging tobacco consumers to quit, and the revenue tobacco taxes bring to state budgets have long been a problem for governments across the...
Nikola Đorđević
Nikola Đorđević is a reporter at Emerging Europe.
The founders of ask.fm are back with a new social network and plenty of seed funding. The Riga-based social media start-up F3 has raised nearly 3.2 million euros in seed...
A Ukrainian English tutoring AI start-up gets 4.2 million euros to expand globally. Ukraine-based cross-platform language school for kids AllRight has raised 4.2 million...
Smoking in the Western Balkans is bucking the European trend, with the number people consuming tobacco on the rise. Entrenched cultural norms, a lack of coherent...
Atmosphere, by Polish musician Wojtek is the world’s first carbon-neutral music album. But is it any good? Sustainability is a big topic these days, with companies...
Central Europe is struggling to contain the second wave of coronavirus, but few countries in the region have the stomach for a new lockdown. With a second wave of the...
Croatian agritech start-up Agrivi raises 3.9 million euros to expand to US and European markets. The Croatian agriculture tech start-up Agrivi has closed a Series A...
Vilnius logistics start-up GoRamp secures 450,000 euros to expand to Poland and Western Europe. Following on from a successful financing round of 120,000 euros in...
An app that allows users to invest in fractional shares in private companies takes its total funding to one million euros. Tallinn-based fintech start-up Raison has...
Soma has developed a solution that replaces harmful styrofoam with a natural material based on fungi. Pollution, CO2 emissions, micro-plastics in the water and in the...
Reality TV in Serbia has taken a sinister turn. “She left the White House! Banged on the gate, shouting, a brutal argument!” says a headline in the Serbian tabloid...
Before 2016 Uzbekistan was off limits for most foreign investors. Now, as part of a series of market reforms, the country is actively seeking foreign partners: not least...
