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Odevo enters Southern Europe and Latin America through Portik Group - adding four new markets
STOCKHOLM, June 26, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Odevo, a leading global residential property management group, continues its international expansion with entry into Spain, Italy, Mexico, and Portugal. This milestone is driven by the addition of Portik...

Balkan Trip TV channel prepares story on Turkmenistan's jewelry art
Representatives of the Serbian TV channel Balkan Trip TV and the Russian film company Vechny Zov visited the State Academy of Arts of Turkmenistan while working on a television story dedicated to the jewelry art of the Turkmen people and the rich...

Revolut Appoints Béatrice Cossa-Dumurgier as CEO for Western Europe
Free Newsletter Get the hottest Fintech Switzerland News once a month in your Inbox Revolut has appointed Béatrice Cossa-Dumurgier as CEO for its new Western Europe headquarters in Paris, which will act as the central hub for the company’s banking...

Qonto Names Malte Dous Managing Director for Central Europe
Free Newsletter Get the hottest Fintech Switzerland News once a month in your Inbox Qonto, a Paris-based financial management platform for SMEs and the self-employed, has appointed Malte Dous as Managing Director for Central Europe. In this role,...

NATO Task Force X Baltic takes new steps in countering CUI risks
The NATO Research Vessel Alliance , which is deployed on NATO's Task Force X Baltic experimentation activity, has been supporting activity trials by acting as a rogue ship moving anomalously over seabed critical infrastructure nodes. (Dr Lee...
Baltic Dry Bulk Index Slips As Capesize Rates Weaken
The Baltic Exchange’s main sea freight index that tracks rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities fell on Wednesday, weighed by a decline in capesize vessel rates. The main index, which monitors rates for capesize, panamax and supramax...

‘I’d love to take up modelling full-time’ – Beverley waitress who is representing East Yorkshire at Miss British Isles 2025
She has already done a spot of modelling and acting but it's still a case of waitressing to pay the bills for Katie Dulson. Now the 21-year-old, from Beverley, is hoping to change all of that with a place in the finals of Miss British Isles 2025....

Time Out Market Budapest Set to Open This Fall as First in Central and Eastern Europe
Time Out Market Budapest – the first Central and Eastern European branch of the international franchise – will open this fall, and Anyukám Mondta, Pingrumba, 101 Bistro, and Szaletly are the first to join Budapest’s new gastronomic center,...

Revolut appoints CEO of new Western Europe HQ
FinTechAppointmentsFinTech giant Revolut has appointed Béatrice Cossa-Dumurgier as the CEO for its new Western Europe headquarters in Paris. The hub will serve as the hub for Revolut’s banking operations in the region, with Cossa-Dumurgier’s key...

Biomednewsbreaks Intelligent Bio Solutions Inc. (NASDAQ: INBS) Expands Fingerprint Drug Testing Across Scandinavia With Spjotgard Partnership
(MENAFN- Investor Brand Network) Intelligent Bio Solutions (NASDAQ: INBS) , a medical technology firm specializing in non-invasive drug screening, reported continued success in its partnership with Spjotgard, a Scandinavian distributor. The...

Landmines return as Baltic states redraw Europe’s modern Iron Curtain
Baltic unity on edge as Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia exit the global landmine ban treaty in 2025. Credit :grapix via Canva.com In a dramatic move that breaks decades of international consensus, Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania have initiated the...

Once giants, Baltic cod have been ‘fished into minnows’
The method of collecting this evidence is an interesting one. To draw their conclusions, researchers decided to analyse ear calculi from 152 cod caught in the Bornholm Basin between 1996 and 2019. These ‘otoliths’ allow age to be determined based...

Online event: Electoral Process in Jeopardy? Lessons Learned from Central Europe
What can the EU learn from recent elections in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), such as those in Poland and Romania? Join us on 3 July at 3:00 PM CEST / 9:00 AM EDT for a Zoom discussion exploring what EU instruments like the Democracy Shield and...

Eurasian Security in the Balkans: Possibilities and Opportunities
At the beginning of each publication on Eurasian security, it is inevitably written that this term was first heard in the speeches of Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2024 — first in his address to the Federal Assembly, and then at a meeting...

Western Europe’s diesel share of car market slips as hybrids gain – GlobalData
Germany experienced the largest year-to-date decline in diesel car demand to May of this year, its total of 248k being 50k fewer than sold in the same period in 2024. Italy and France were the other major contributors to the region’s 155k decline...

The incredible shrinking fish: Baltic cod evolve to dodge nets

Ireland has second-lowest childhood vaccination rate in Western Europe
Lancet study found that 91 per cent of children here were inoculated in 2023, with almost 5,000 having not received a single vaccination Ireland had the second-lowest level of childhood vaccination coverage in western Europe in 2023, a new study...

Hyundai E&C Moves to Expand Into Northern Europe’s Large-Scale Nuclear Market
On June 19, Hyundai Engineering & Construction (Hyundai E&C) is intensifying its efforts to penetrate the European nuclear power market, following its recent success in Eastern Europe and now targeting Nordic countries. The company announced it...

Baltic Pavilion at Expo 2025 celebrates Midsummer
The Baltic Pavilion has already welcomed a record number of visitors during the world's largest exhibition – more than 370,000 visitors. The Midsummer celebrations also attracted great interest from visitors from Japan and other countries, who...

Rutte: “We care a lot about the Western Balkans”
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said in The Hague today that the military alliance cares deeply about the Western Balkans and that its omission from the declaration adopted at the alliance summit does not mean a change in its stance towards the...