The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing a €10 million loan to Intesa Sanpaolo Banka in Bosnia and Herzegovina for on-lending to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for investments in competitiveness and measures to overcome the economic downturn following the coronavirus pandemic.
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The chairman of the European People's Party (EPP) -- the largest group in the European Parliament -- has sharply criticized the policies of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in an opinion piece published on December 27 by a German newspaper.
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The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the European Union (EU) are scaling up their support for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine (EaP) amid a severe economic downturn resulting from the coronavirus pandemic.
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If creativity is intelligence having fun, the digital agency Leavingstone in Georgia must be full of incredible people having the time of their lives. Founded by four best friends in 2010, this creative agency has won people’s hearts and minds with memorable multimedia, guerrilla marketing campaigns and striking prints.
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The European Union and World Bank joint project - Georgia Financial Inclusion and Accountability – in partnership with the National Reforms Support Foundation in Accounting, Reporting and Auditing (RSF), held today a virtual award ceremony for the second Best Annual Report and Transparency Award (BARTA).
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Serbia’s northern city of Subotica is now equipped with a modern water and wastewater network and facilities thanks to a decade-long engineering endeavour supported by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the European Union (EU) and bilateral donors under the Western Balkans Investment Framework (WBIF).
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Fair and equitable access to a successful COVID-19 vaccine, regardless of income, for millions of people across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Pacific, and in Europe's eastern and southern neighbourhood, has been enabled by €500 million of new European financial support for the global vaccine initiative COVAX.
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“Blanketing the golden deserts of Egypt with solar panels and unlocking their massive energy potential,” was the dream of Yaseen Abdel Ghaffar, Managing Director of SolarizEgypt, a company that successfully implemented the first rooftop photovoltaic (PV) system through a private-to-private power purchase agreement (PPA) in the country.
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Today, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) launched a new partnership initiative to strengthen the capacity of Africa CDC to prepare for and respond to public health threats in Africa.
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The European Commission is lifting the yellow card to Kiribati after four and half years of close cooperation. The “yellow card” is an official warning issued by the European Union to trading partners falling short of tackling illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing. By lifting the card, the European Commission recognises the important progress of
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