The use of the ruble in settlements for goods and services exported by Russia to European partners was up 58.5% in March 2024 to record levels, according to data from the Central Bank of Russia.
In early May, Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Europe for the first time since 2019. The destinations of the visit were France, Hungary and Serbia. China sought to improve its relationship with Europe, but relations remain tense.
Global temperature is now near its peak due to El Niño aerosol decrease. How far will it fall in the coming La Niña? Less than expected.
Development bank makes downward revision in latest forecasts after worse than expected Q1 figures for Central Europe.
Some key new initiatives look set to help Latvia’s start-up scene move out of the shadow of its northern neighbour Estonia.
Nauseda received just over 44 per cent of the votes in the first round of voting on May 12, and Simonyte garnered almost 20 per cent.
"We found that trees in warmer, drier climates are essentially coughing instead of breathing," a study by Penn State found.
Polls show that incumbent could win re-election on May 12 without requiring a run-off.
April 2024 set a global moisture record for the planet, reports climatologist Ben Noll
Luminor is the third-largest bank in the Baltic states and is reportedly valued at more than €2bn.
EBRD research shows GDP per capita in 8 CEE countries that joined the EU in 2004 has close to doubled as a share of Germany’s GDP per capita.
Eastern EU members are growing much faster than the eurozone, but must focus more on innovation for a full catchup.
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda and Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte believe that Lithuania should help Ukraine get back its military-age men living abroad.
20 years after Central European countries' accession, the region's populists present a grave threat to the EU's fundamental values.
Apathy and lack of trust in national institutions, combined with ‘convergence fatigue’, have created favourable conditions for populist forces that have degraded the quality of institutions in many of the CEE states that joined the EU in 2004.
20 years after the accession of Central Europe, EU enlargement can be seen as an engine of economic growth, even if it was not a success everywhere and in all areas.
As the climate crisis accelerates, banks are facing increasing financial risks and have begun to try to assess their exposure to the trillions of dollars of damage extreme weather will do every year.
Germany’s slow recovery is dampening growth prospects for Central and Southeast European economies.
PwC and CEE Digital Coalition believe the Central and Eastern Europe region has the potential to create the EU’s Silicon Valley.
The three Baltic states – which have had no nuclear reactors since the closure of Lithuania’s Soviet-designed Ignalina plant 15 years ago – are now all looking at small modular reactor technology.