Eastern Europe

Slovenian energy group Petrol [LJE:PETG] has lowered its net profit guidance for the first half of 2022 by 54 million euro ($57 million) due to the effect...

The Belgrade Stock Exchange closed Tuesday's session lower, with construction company Jedinstvo [BEL:JESV] pacing the blue-chip decliners, bourse data show...

Flag carrier Air Montenegro has launched flights linking Podgorica to Denmark's capital Copenhagen, it said.The service will be initially operated once a w...

Slovenia's industrial producer prices rose by 22.5% on the year in May, after increasing by 20.4% in the previous month, the country's statistical office s...

Bosnian property management company Dubicki Robni Magazin [BANJ:DBRM-L2] is inviting investors to subscribe for its new share issue, seeking to raise 2.2 m...

Citymesh, a joint venture of Romanian telecommunications company RCS&RDS and Belgian IT group Cegeka said on Tuesday it has won a 5G auction for the al...

Bulgarian hydraulic equipment manufacturer M+S Hydraulic [BUL:MSH] said on Tuesday that it recorded a revenue of 83.1 million levs ($44.8 million/42.5 mill...

Croatian shipping company Atlantska Plovidba [ZSE:ATPL] said it will propose to its shareholders to distribute a dividend of 20 kuna ($2.8/2.7 euro) per sh...

Bosnia's Federation sold out a 30 million marka ($16.2 million/15.3 million euro) issue of ten-year Treasury notes at an auction held on Tuesday, the entit...

Matteo Patrone, Managing Director for Eastern Europe and the Caucasus at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development's (EBRD), is visiting Moldova...

Albania's annual harmonised index of consumer prices (HICP) rose by 6% in May, after advancing 6.1% in April, the country's statistical office said on Tues...

Bulgarian car battery manufacturer Elhim Iskra [BUL:ELHM] said on Tuesday that it booked a provisional accumulated loss of 818,000 levs ($441,435/418,235 e...

The loan portfolio of North Macedonia's commercial banks rose 9.9% year-on-year to 403.5 billion denars ($6.9 billion/6.5 billion euro) at the end of May,...

Bulgaria led in terms of the annual increase in hourly labour costs in the first quarter of 2022 among European Union member states from Southeast Europe (...

North Macedonia's M1 money supply totalled 208.96 billion denars ($3.6 billion/3.4 billion euro) at the end of May, down 0.3% year-on-year, data from the c...

Romanian private healthcare services provider MedLife Group [BSE:M] said on Tuesday it has signed an agreement to take over an 80% stake in Timisoara-based...

UK-based Bulgarian grain-trading digital marketplace Agriniser said on Tuesday that it is launching a seed funding round targeting 500,000 euro ($528,620)...

Croatia's average net monthly wage totalled 7,547 kuna ($1,062/1,004 euro) in April, down 2.6% year-on-year in real terms, the country's statistical office...

Croatia's registered unemployment rate stood at 6.5% in May, down from 7.0% in April, the country's statistical office said on Tuesday.In May, there were 1...

The governments of Kosovo and Albania signed a Memorandum of Cooperation for the development of the Lungomare LNG terminal in Albania's Vlora, Kosovo prime...

Japan Tobacco International (JTI) Romania said on Tuesday it posted a 825 million lei ($176 million/167 million euro) profit in 2021, up 13% year-on-year.T...

The Three Seas Initiative Investment Fund SA SICAV-RAIF, known as 3SIIF, said it purchased a significant stake in Bulgarian port operator BMF Port Burgas f...

North Macedonia's energy and water services regulatory commission (ERC) said it has revoked the licence for production of heating energy of private company...

Mastel CNC, the Bosnian subsidiary of German metal processing company Mastel CNC-Technik, is investing 5 million euro ($5.3 million) in the construction of...

Bosnia and Herzegovina's municipality of Bileca has decided to issue bonds worth 4.3 million marka ($2.3 million/2.2 million euro) to repay old debt, it sa...

Slovenia and Croatia have improved their positions in this year's edition of the World Competitiveness Rankings compiled by Swiss-based business school Ins...

Croatian hotel operator HTP Orebic [ZSE:HTPO] said on Monday it will propose to its shareholders to cover the net loss of 945,771 kuna ($132,300/126,000 eu...

Bosnia's Federation posted a trade deficit of 2.844 billion marka ($1.526 billion/1.452 billion euro) in the first five months of this year, compared with...

Bosnia's Federation industrial producer prices rose by 28.6% on the year in May, after adding 18.6% in April, the entity's statistical office said on Monda...

The consumer price index (CPI) of Bosnia's Federation rose by 15.1% on the year in May, following an increase of 14.1% in April, the Federation's statistic...

Bosnia's trade deficit rose 41% year-on-year to 3.586 billion marka ($1.932 billion/1.836 billion euro) in the first five months of 2022, figures released...

Romanian private healthcare services provider MedLife [BSE:M] led the gainers among the blue-chips on the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) on Monday, bourse...

Romania on Monday sold 567.5 million lei ($121 million/115 million euro) worth of Treasury bonds maturing in 2027, above initial target, central bank data...

The average net monthly salary in Bosnia and Herzegovina fell by 3.2% in real terms, to 1,083 marka ($583/554 euro) in April on a monthly comparison basis,...

The two share indices of the Ljubljana Stock Exchange (LJSE) opened the trading week in green territory, as each of them gained 0.35% on Monday, bourse dat...

The Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE) indices presented a mixed picture after Monday's session, with the blue-chip SOFIX closing flat at 612.77 points as gain...

The number of registered unemployed people in Bosnia fell by 9% year-on-year in April, to 365,878, the Agency for Statistics said on Monday.On a monthly co...

Energy and insurance group Eurohold Bulgaria's [BUL:EUBG] subsidiary Eastern European Electric Company (EEEC) said on Monday that it owns 97.66% of Electro...

The main equity indices of the Zagreb Stock Exchange (ZSE) declined on Monday for a sixth trading session in a row, as losses in Ericsson Nikola Tesla and...

Croatian hotel operator HTP Korcula [ZSE:HTPK] said on Monday it will propose to its shareholders to cover the net loss of 6.9 million kuna ($966,000/918,0...

UK-based renewable energy company Cindrigo said it has signed a deal to acquire 90% of Croatian company EES Dravacel Energetika, which holds a geothermal e...

Bulgaria's lignite-fired power plant Bobov Dol [BUL:TC8A] will start the construction of a connection to the gas grid in August, public radio BNR reported...

The Belgrade Stock Exchange plans to remove lender Komercijalna banka [BEL:KMBN] from its blue-chip index BELEX15 as of June 30, it said.Komercijalna banka...

Romania's competition authority said on Monday that it has approved the takeover of domestic lender Porsche Bank Romania by local IT&C entrepreneur Dan...

The European Union finance ministers said they have recommended Croatia for euro adoption as of January 1, 2023."Today we have taken decisions, which will...

Construction company Jedinstvo [BEL:DNOS] led the blue-chip gainers' list on the Belgrade Stock Exchange on Monday, as stock indices closed up, bourse data...

Outgoing traffic from mobile telephony networks in Slovenia decreased by 5.9% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2022 to 1.4 billion minutes, the country...

The number of building permits issued in Slovenia in May increased by 6% month-on-month to 492, the office of national statistics said on Monday.A total of...

Bosnia and Herzegovina's non-deposit microfinance institution Mikrofin said on Monday it will increase its capital by issuing 1 million marka ($538,000/511...

Slovenian hotel operator Union Hoteli [LJSE:GHUG] has disposed of all of its outstanding 313 shares in the capital of real estate company Equinox [LJE:EQNX...