A new media freedom watchdog has been established in the Czech Republic, as a branch of the International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media...
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A selection of articles about emerging Europe published elsewhere this week, all of which are well worth your time. Vlad Luca Filat, the son of a former prime minister...
The number of fathers taking advantage of their paternity leave entitlements has been on the rise in most European countries over the past decade. However, with the...
Three countries this year outperformed the United States in the Consumer Technology Association’s (CTA) 2019’s International Scorecard, with Estonia one of them (the...
Following the successful launch of the Emerging Europe Awards in June 2018, Emerging Europe, a London-based business, media and research platform, whose mission is to...
Two emerging Europe countries, Hungary and Serbia, have been downgraded from ‘free’ to ‘partly free’ in the latest edition of the Freedom of the...
Czech energy group Sev.en Energy is acquiring a 50 per cent stake in the independent power generator InterGen. InterGen has a portfolio capacity exceeding 4,000 MW with...
In its latest Index of Economic Freedom, the Heritage Foundation, a US think tank, reports that 132 countries around the world have increased their levels of economic...
The Czech Republic’s taxation authority has excluded the Chinese IT company Huawei from a public tender procedure to build a tax portal for almost 20 million euros. The...
Estonia has been named as the least corrupt country in emerging Europe in the latest Corruption Perceptions Index, published by Transparency International. The Baltic...
New data from Eurostat, the European Union’s statistics department, have revealed that housing prices in Slovenia rose 15.1 per cent year-on-year in the third...
The European Commission decided to refer the Czech Republic and Slovenia to the Court of Justice of the EU for failing to comply with the Energy Performance of Buildings...
Polish petrol giant PKN Orlen, which already operates petrol stations in Poland, the Czech Republic, Germany and Lithuania, has announced plans to expand to Slovakia...