The Czech government has approved the country’s budget for 2020, promising increases in pensions, teachers’ wages, parental benefits and higher spending on...
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The leaders of Poland and Lithuania have raised new concerns over Russia’s Nord Stream 2 project, claiming that the gas pipeline presents a threat to the energy security...
The Czech Republic is launching a competition for towns and municipalities to test 5G technologies, following a national strategy approved in May. “5G technologies are...
Moldova’s economy expanded by 5.8 per cent year-on-year in real terms in the second quarter of 2019, with wholesale and retail the main growth drivers, the...
Ukraine’s foreign minister, Vadym Prystaiko, has expressed concern over the country’s new government facing pressure from western countries to make a deal with...
US-based international credit ratings agency Fitch has upgraded the long-term foreign-currency issuer default ratings (IDR) of Naftogaz, Ukraine’s national gas holding...
Prince Metternich, the Austrian foreign minister and chancellor of the early 19th century, is reputed to have said that “the Balkans begin at the Landstrasse”, a road...
World Bank Country Manager Marco Mantovanelli and Vice President of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) Georgina Baker speak to Emerging Europe's Andrew Wrobel...
Georgia’s new prime minister, Giorgi Gakharia, and the European Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Johannes Hahn (pictured above) have both stated that the...
The Belarusian government will partially integrate the country’s economic and welfare system to that of Russia, introducing an “economic confederacy” between...
Banks could lose up to 280 billion US dollars in payments revenue by 2025, as an increasing number of start-ups, such as Estonia’s TransferWise, make sending money...
Het is geen geheim dat de Amerikaanse president Donald Trump zich graag bemoeit met buitenlandse zaken – vooral als het gaat om het beschermen van Amerikaanse...