IMF warns of slower growth across Southeast Europe

TIRANA, Oct. 20 — After two years of fast growth from tourism and construction, Southeast Europe’s economies are losing pace, the IMF said in its latest outlook. Post-pandemic demand is fading. Investment is cooling under higher interest rates. EU...

New Report Sets Baseline for EU SAF Monitoring

EASA released its latest ReFuelEU Aviation Technical Report Wednesday, providing the first comprehensive review of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) activity across the European Union. Covering data from 2024, the report identifies Finland, France,...

Unmet medical needs: Where are children most likely to skip health care in Europe?

By&nbspEuronews Published on 17/10/2025 - 7:00 GMT+2 Almost all European children receive the health care they need, new data shows — but in some countries, they are more likely to skip care than in others. Last year, 3.2 per cent of children in...

Europe must walk the walk on Ukraine

President Volodymyr Zelensky and European Council President Antonio Costa at a European Council meeting in Brussels, Belgium, on Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025. (Simon Wohlfahrt/Bloomberg via Getty Images) On Sept. 9, Russia violated Polish airspace with...

Mass Demonstrations in Budapest Highlight Growing Tensions Ahead of Hungary’s National Election

BY EMMANUEL OGBONNA Hundreds of thousands of Hungarians flooded the streets of Budapest on Thursday as rival political movements staged competing demonstrations, signaling the mounting intensity of the country’s political landscape ahead of next...

Intermarium between NATO, Russia and the Great Powers

Romania’s Role in the Security Architecture from the Baltic to the Black, Caspian and Adriatic Seas By Lieutenant (ret) General Corneliu Pivariu The concept of Intermarium—originally conceived by Józef Piłsudski[1] during the interwar...

Turkey’s gas shift threatens Russia and Iran’s last big European market

Turkey could meet more than half of its gas needs by the end of 2028 by ramping up production and increasing U.S. imports, in a shift that threatens to shrink the last major European market for Russian and Iranian suppliers. Washington has...

Over 4.69 million pensioners, at the end of September 2025

Monday, October 20, 2025 A number of 4,692,810 pensioners was registered in September 2025 in Romania with 3,548 more compared to the previous month, and average pension was 2,773 lei according to the centralised data by the National House for...

European Union adopts 19th sanctions package against Russia: EU foreign policy chief Kallas

Brussels [Belgium], October 23 (ANI): The European Union has formally adopted its latest sanctions package against Russia, EU High Representative Kaja Kallas announced on Thursday after a meeting in Brussels of the leaders of the bloc's member...

Concelex to modernize Arad Penitentiary under RON 49 mln contract

Romanian construction company Concelex has secured a contract worth over RON 49 million (EUR 9.7 million), excluding VAT, to modernize the Arad Penitentiary. The project will focus on improving living conditions, energy efficiency, and safety...

Spain's National Day celebrated in Chișinău

Spain's National Day was celebrated in Chișinău through an event organized by the Embassy of the Kingdom of Spain in Romania and the Republic of Moldova. Attending the event were Spanish ambassador to the Republic of Moldova, based in Bucharest,...

Carrefour’s focus on price stabilises growth in its Western Europe markets, says GlobalData

Following today’s release of Carrefour’s figures for the three months ending 30 September 2025; Eleanor Simpson-Gould, senior retail analyst at GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company, offers her view: “Carrefour has delivered a...

Retail media and marketplaces: the medium is the marketplace

Control in commerce increasingly means control of attention and media. In this new era, marketplaces don’t just host the sale, they own the media that leads to the sale In the past decade, ecommerce platforms evolved from mere transaction conduits...

Denmark vs. the Shadow Fleet

The Danes don’t do that anymore, but they still don’t like to be jerked around. They were quite cross when unidentified drones forced them to shut down their airports on several occasions late last month, and Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said...

Ranked: The World’s Largest Economies in 2026

Ranked: The World’s Largest Economies in 2026 See visuals like this from many other data creators on our Voronoi app. Download it for free on iOS or Android and discover incredible data-driven charts from a variety of trusted sources. Key...

OMV to Reset Dividend Policy

OMV AG will implement a new dividend policy from 2026, when it expects to have consolidated its petrochemical assets with Abu Dhabi National Oil Co PJSC (ADNOC), the Austrian state-backed integrated energy company said this week. On March 4 OMV...

Trump is getting serious about punishing Putin

Donald Trump’s on-again, off-again threats to sanction Russia for its intransigence over peace talks in Ukraine solidified today into concrete action. The US has announced sanctions against Rosneft and Lukoil, two of Russia’s largest oil...

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 21, 2025

October 21, 2025, 8:00 pm ET Click here to see ISW’s interactive map of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This map is updated daily alongside the static maps present in this report. Click here to see ISW's interactive map of Ukraine's offensive in...

Hundreds of thousands of Hungarians attend rival rallies in Budapest

Hundreds of thousands of Hungarians filled the streets of Budapest in competing demonstrations as supporters of the country’s two main political movements staged mutual shows of strength before next spring’s national election. The rival rallies on...

Hundreds of thousands of Hungarians attend rival rallies in Budapest as Orbán faces...

The election is due in April, but an exact date for the vote hasn't been set. Orbán's supporters gathered on a bridge spanning the Danube River on Thursday morning and began marching toward Hungary's towering neo-Gothic parliament. The rally,...