It’s been a good year for Russia’s Norilsk Nickel (Nornickel), despite the challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic, and a diesel fuel leakage accident in May...
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Emerging Europe has been crunching the numbers to see if the countries of Central and Eastern Europe really are as ‘low tax’ as they sometimes claim. The...
In parts of Central Europe, more than 90 per cent of water bodies do not meet the European Environmental Agency’s standards. Now, a Hungarian start-up may have...
Poland has long been a cultural powerhouse. The birthplace of no fewer than six Nobel Literature Prize laureates (most recently Olga Tokarczuk in 2018), the country can...
Global supply chains are being disrupted, and major players are looking to shift production closer to home. Central and Eastern Europe is well-placed to take advantage...
The Czech billionaire Petr Kellner and his PPF Group are set to make a play for the Serbian TV and broadband market, if regulatory bodies in the country approve a...
Three emerging Europe states – Czechia, Latvia and Lithuania – have been named among the world’s top performers in terms of regulatory best practice...
Construction of the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline between Russia and Europe has resumed. Its backers are now facing a race against time to complete the project...
The UK has signed another post-Brexit trade deal with an emerging European country: this time, it’s Albania. The UK and Albania will do more to tackle organised...
A combination of government-led reform, international pressure, higher wages, and the return of migrant workers from abroad has all-but eradicated the use of child and...
Romania has launched a new electronic timber traceability system, an important step in its transition to a fully digital forest sector. Unfortunately, the new system has...
The UK government’s trade advisors are telling British businesses that export to the European Union to set up separate companies inside the EU in order to get...
