Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey and connecting Europe and Asia, is scaling up its urban regeneration by joining the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s flagship EBRD Green Cities urban sustainability programme.
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In a report adopted on Thursday, MEPs call on Turkey to credibly demonstrate the sincerity of its commitment to closer relations with the European Union.
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By mid-2021 the European Commission plans to propose a bill for a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), often referred to as a carbon border tax. It would reflect the amount of carbon emissions attributed to goods imported into the European Union, reducing and regulating the import of goods with high carbon footprint from countries that
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Turkey’s decision to withdraw from an important treaty on protecting women is “a very worrying step backwards”, a group of independent UN human rights experts said on Tuesday.
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The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing a fresh boost to Turkey's technology sector by investing in DgPays, a leading digital payment system provider, alongside Goldman Sachs, the global investment bank. The deal is subject to regulatory approval.
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One of Turkey’s leading food retailers, Migros, will expand its operations using a €60 million loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
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The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing US$ 100 million in new funds to Denizbank A.S. to finance companies’ investments in green technologies and support women-led businesses as the Covid-19 pandemic continues.
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One day after hundreds protested in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan's State Committee for National Security (UKMK) said a probe into former deputy chief of the Customs Service Raimbek Matraimov could be reopened.
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The eldest daughter of Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoev has become one the most visible public figures in the authoritarian Central Asian country, where the president enjoys enormous power.
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Coming just a week before President Trump incited an insurrection against Congress, President Erdoğan's installation of a hand-picked rector for Boğaziçi University is both a blow to Turkish academic freedom and a warning for American democracy about the danger of personalized power, write Ayşe Candan Kirişci and Kemal Kirişci. This post originally appeared in Just
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