In preparation for European Bank for Reconstruction and Development's (EBRD) new country strategy for Bosnia and Herzegovina, members of the board of directors recently travelled to the county to meet with government authorities, business representatives and civil society organizations.
Albanian startup Manoolia is on a mission to help companies enhance what they can do online through programming, copywriting, search engine optimization (SEO), mobile app development and more.
Romanian officials are hoping that new Black Sea gas extraction and pipeline plans will add to their country’s energy economy, making Romania a local energy hub.
Government corruption is a problem all over the world, but some of the countries in the Balkan region continue to struggle with relatively serious governmental and political problems, even in the modern age.
The European Commission and the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy have adopted a joint communication to promote a forward-looking strategy about Syria.
The National Bank of Romania's foreign exchange reserves as of the end of February amounted to $36.97 billion, a slight reduction from January's figure of $36.99 billion.
International watchdog Transparency International says 11 of 12 Balkan nations are perceived as “highly corrupt,” and that Kosovo, Macedonia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Albania, Bulgaria and Serbia have “endemic corruption” in their public sector.
A U.S.-based workforce management and recruiting company that is disrupting the industry has moved a considerable amount of its operations into Athens, Greece, in part, to take advantage of talent pools in an emerging tech community
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.
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.
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 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.
On Feb. 20, Moscow’s Tsverskoy District Court issued a new arrest warrant in absentia for William Browder, UK citizen and CEO of Hermitage Capital Management, a major investment firm he co-founded in Russia in 1996.