The Connecting Europe Facility’s largest ever grant should allow the three Baltic states to gain full control of their electricity networks by 2025. The European...
Tag - Latvia
Much of emerging Europe is at risk of corruption in the defence and security sectors, according to new research from Transparency International. Decades of progress...
A major new seizure of illegal cigarettes highlights the scale of emerging Europe’s clandestine tobacco trade. Law enforcement authorities seized 37 million...
Latvia is celebrating a centenary of cinema this year, and the country’s National Film Centre has prepared a treat for all cinephiles interested in international...
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...
Shadowy spending of pandemic funds could dash EU hopes for a green recovery, says a new report. European Union member states in Central and Eastern Europe have provided...
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...
Our weekly digest of articles about emerging Europe published elsewhere this week, all of which caught our eye and all of which are well worth your time. Listing them...
Latvia leads the EU when it comes to the number of women in science and tech. For some time the European Union has sought to improve its wide gender imbalance in...
Building on the success of its Baltic forests fund, INVL creates new vehicle for investment in forests and agricultural land across Central and Eastern Europe. INVL...
Impervious to international safety concerns, Belarus starts up its first nuclear power plant. “Cynical ignorance” is how Lithuania’s foreign minister...
Ingrida Šimonytė (pictured above, centre, on the campaign trail) is likely to be Lithuania’s next prime minister after her party, the Homeland Union, clearly won...
