Estonia has told Danske Bank to close its branch in Tallinn before the end of 2019 after a money-laundering scandal. The move follows the publication of a report last year which revealed a series of major deficiencies in the bank’s governance...
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Estonia, Latvia and Denmark have signed a memorandum of understanding to establish a new headquarters for NATO’s Multinational Division North, which will serve as basis...
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...
INVL Asset Management, one of Lithuania’s leading asset management companies, has completed a first closing of the INVL Baltic Sea Growth Fund, a closed-end private...
According to the European Union’s statistics department, Eurostat, in 2017, more than 95 per cent of children in the European Union (EU) were considered to be in...
Retail bank Luminor is set to lay off off around 800 members of staff in the Baltic States in 2019. Around 130 employees in Estonia, 250 employees in Latvia and 420...
Two emerging Europe countries, Hungary and Serbia, have been downgraded from ‘free’ to ‘partly free’ in the latest edition of the Freedom of the...
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...
Latvia’s Procurement Monitoring Bureau (IUB) has blocked the country’s state-run railway company Pasažieru Vilciens (PV) from closing a 225 million-euro deal. In...
The world’s largest social network, Facebook, has announced plans to open a content review centre in the Bulgarian capital Sofia. The media giant will work...
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...
