A major new seizure of illegal cigarettes highlights the scale of emerging Europe’s clandestine tobacco trade. Law enforcement authorities seized 37 million...
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The purchase of a large independent publisher by a state-run company raises new concerns over media freedom in Poland. Poland’s state-controlled oil refiner PKN Orlen...
An Estonian start-up could be a model for the global fight against money laundering. Estonian anti-money laundering (AML) start-up Salv has announced a close on a 1.5...
A new venture capital fund is set to invest between 40-50 million euros in the Romanian technology sector. Catalyst Romania, backed by 3TS Capital Partners, is deploying...
Sales of smartphones in Central Europe picked up in the third quarter of 2020, but the industry may not be out of the woods just yet. The smartphone market in Central...
Latvian fintech start-up Nordigen is disrupting open banking data access by launching freemium platform. Riga-based fintech start-up Nordigen announced on December 1 the...
BOOKR, a Hungarian literacy edtech start-up, receives more than two million euros in funding. BOOKR Kids, a Hungarian reading skills edtech start-up, has received two...
A generation of talented designers is making Tbilisi an essential creative hub. The Covid-19 pandemic has spelt disaster for much of the fashion industry. Small brands...
Healthtech start-ups in emerging Europe have responded to the Covid-19 pandemic with a wealth of innovation. The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has brought forth many...
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...
A new fintech app created by Eastern Europeans makes investing at the London Stock Exchange easy Orca, a new investment app launched by Denis Gulagin and...
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...
