On July 10, Croatia and Bulgaria got the green light from European Union finance ministers to join the European Central Bank’s Exchange Rate Mechanism II (known as ERM II and sometimes called the eurozone waiting room), a key step on the road...
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Polls in Croatia ahead of a parliamentary election on July 5 showed the ruling conservatives, the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), running neck and neck with the...
Poland will be emerging Europe’s largest beneficiary of coronavirus recovery funds under the Next Generation EU proposals revealed by European Commission President...
The European Commission has announced plans to borrow 750 billion euros in order to help EU member states combat the impact of the coronavirus crisis. While the...
Poland appears to have built its last coal-fired power plant. Late on May 19, two state-run Polish utility companies, Enea and Energa, said that they were ending their...
The European Commission has mobilised a further 122 million euros from its research and innovation programme, Horizon 2020, for urgently needed research into the...
For many people across Europe, a commitment to healthy eating was one of the first things to be jettisoned the moment governments from Tirana to Tallinn announced strict...
The European Commission has announced 3.3 billion euros of European Union financial support, mobilised jointly with the European Investment Bank, for the Western Balkans...
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...
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...
The European Commission, in cooperation with the President of the European Council, has put forward a European roadmap to phase-out the containment measures due to the...
As western democracies scramble to contain the coronavirus crisis, authoritarian and populist leaders see the pandemic as a political opportunity. In Russia, Vladimir...
