On the evening of May 24, Montenegro became the second country in Europe to officially report they it is free of active Covid-19 cases. Montenegro has now joined the...
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Last Thursday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen offered a “heartfelt” apology to Italy and announced an action plan worth three trillion euros – which...
On April 10, the euro group agreed on a 500 billion euros rescue package that made the Bulgarian government regret that it had decided to delay its plans to join the...
A handful of countries began slowly lifting coronavirus restrictions this week, led, in emerging Europe, by Czechia and Poland. The relaxation of lockdown rules, which...
Jean Monnet, one of the founding fathers of ever closer union in Europe, held the mantra that crises are opportunities. The coronavirus pandemic certainly falls into the...
Bulgarian Kristalina Georgieva has been confirmed as the new managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Her five-year term in the post will begin on...
Financial markets had for a long time prepared themselves for an initial interest rate hike by the European Central Bank (ECB) in 2019, but developments in the first...
The European Central Bank (ECB) will test five Croatian banks, Zagrebačka Banka, Privredna Banka Zagreb, Erste & Steiermärkische Bank, OTP Banka Hrvatska and...
After three days of intense talks, there’s a touch of female know-how at the European institutions. Late on July 2, EU leaders agreed on German defence minister...
Croatia has sent a letter of intent to Brussels expressing its readiness to join the eurozone. “I think that our arguments and key areas in which we will undertake...
Slovenia’s second largest bank, Nova Kreditna Banka Maribor (NKBM), has acquired state-owned bank Abanka for 444 million euros, completing a privatisation process that...
A decade since Slovakia adopted the euro, a key European official has said that the country is an impressive example of how economic and institutional convergence can be...