The Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) recently highlighted promising market growth that has seen the BET and BET-TR, two key indices, soar by 13.4 percent in the past eight weeks, with the BET recently hitting its highest values since January 2008.

The European Commission recently released its European Semester 2017 assessment, suggesting that many European Union countries have improved economically in the past year.

A proposed gas pipeline moving some 1.8 million cubic meters of natural gas per year from Bulgaria to Serbia linking the Bulgarian capital, Sofia with the Serbian city of Nis could have a beneficial impact on local economies and help the two nations to be less reliant on Russian oil.

Montenegro opposition parties are responding negatively to a plan by the government of Prime Minister Dusko Markovic to adopt a draft budget for this year that would include new loans to cover a shortfall of about $481 million.

A video gaming company based in Bulgaria has now closed its doors, but up until under a year ago, Tesseract Interactive was hard at workbuilding the future of high-tech gaming.

Banca Intesa is offering a special loan geared toward helping agricultural projects as the spring planting season nears.

South Central Ventures (SCV) is the latest international investor to participate in a $500,000 seed round for UK and Macedonian startup Cognism, which has created innovative solutions for organizations to give customers with efficiency and privacy.

The European Commission plans to offer $111 million in humanitarian aid to Africa's Lake Chad region this year.

Following the recent death of Vitaly Churkin, Russia's ambassador to the United Nations, Republic of Srpska Prime Minister Zeljka Cvijanovic recently offered her condolences.

Despite the economic and financial challenges Greece faces, Athens’ Euroxx Securities has projected a growth in profits for the country’s four systemic banks this year.

According to its recently approved Annual Financial Report 2016, the Piraeus Port Authority S.A. had a 3.6 percent increase in revenues last year at $109.3 million, up from $105.5 million in 2015.

A trio of economists with the International Monetary Fund has published a paper detailing how to determine the sustainability of debt.

The Greek Initiative for Work Experience was held recently at the Ceremonial Hall of the University of Belgrade.

Bulgaria’s “We The Citizens” group recently wrote an open letter to President Rumen Radev asking for the full truth of KTB’s bankruptcy and subsequent looting of its assets.

Raiffeisen Bank recently launched a range of services for students at the Sarajevo School of Economics and Business, including a lounge dubbed the Raiffeisen CLUB Student Corner and free online banking services.

Gorenje has won the Best from Serbia award from the Serbian Chamber of Commerce and the Ministry of Commerce, Tourism and Telecommunication.

TITAN Group, a cement and concrete company, has been named to the FTSE4Good Emerging Index based on the company's sustainability practices.

Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) and the Rotary International District 2241 Romania and the Republic of Moldova have teamed up to offer free financial and entrepreneurship education programs.

Bulgaria's upstart political party Yes, Bulgaria doesn’t like to hear the word ‘no.’

The UniCredit S.p.A. board of directors recently evaluated the compliance of newly appointed members with requirements from statutory and regulatory provisions.