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Top 10 Unicorns in Europe by value 1 – Klarna (Sweden). Valuation: $10.65bn. Sector: fintech 2 – Bolt (Estonia). Valuation: $4.3bn. Sector: transport 3 – Northvolt (Sweden). Valuation: $3.55bn. Sector: energy 4 – Otto Bock (Germany). Valuation: $3.5bn. Sector: ...

Europe is facing a difficult second quarter as coronavirus infections rise and governments reimpose lockdown measures, but the European Central Bank will do its part to keep borrowing costs ultra ...

The Turkish lira plunged on Sunday night, immediately after the re-opening of major foreign exchange markets, after President Tayyip Erdogan sacked the country’s hawkish central bank governor, replacing him ...

For the first time, a comprehensive effort is underway to make the island a technology hub Cyprus is framing a comprehensive, holistic policy to compete as a technology hub, Invest ...

Wizz Air is to introduce 122 new routes in spring and summer of this year. The new routes to and from Cyprus include: Larnaca-Cardiff, Larnaca-Tel Aviv, Larnaca-Birmingham, Larnaca-Kharkiv and Larnaca-Oslo Gardermoen, ...

By Dr. Charles Ellinas We urgently need a major rethink and change in direction. I have called repeatedly, and have been advocating through my articles in this newspaper, for the ...

The central bank of Turkey on Wednesday raised its key interest rate to 19 per cent from 17 per cent. The lira rose to about 8.75 against the euro from over 9 to the ...

Britons are planning on using a portion of savings accumulated over the last year to go on a £50 billion spending spree when lockdown is lifted, according to a collaborative report ...

European Commission proposes to create a Digital Green Certificate to facilitate safe free movement inside the EU during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a press release on Wednesday. Commissioner for ...

Russian tourists are expected to be welcome in Cyprus as of April 1, according to sources close to the deputy ministry of tourism. Phillip Orphanides contributed to this article. Tourism operators ...

Qatar Petroleum, the world’s top liquefied natural gas (LNG) producer, is cranking up the pressure on high-cost rivals with bold expansion plans that will boost supplies over the coming ...

The world’s most popular cryptocurrency slipped as low as $58,956.90 early in the Asian session, falling from Saturday’s record high of $61,781.83, then came back to $59,315. The price in euros ...

CEOs are more optimistic about the outlook for their businesses. Some 36 per cent of those polled said they are “very confident” about their organisation’s prospects for revenue growth over ...

Corporate tax hikes are coming, expected to reverse decades-long decline. Few governments struggling to vaccinate populations and reopen economies are likely to raid companies just yet. Many are still offering ...

The government has decided to move ahead with the privatisation of the stock exchange, and to seek a partner exchange for it abroad, Cyprus Stock Exchange Chairman Marinos Christodoulides said ...

Murex, one of the most important financial software producers in Europe, will soon open offices in Cyprus, according to tech industry sources. The company is planning a move to Nicosia. ...

For the first time, Cyprus employers must rebrand themselves to attract top talent, notes Katerina Andreou, founder of hrinnovate.org. As the chart shows, there is a fraught global shortage ...

“Businesses in Cyprus support each other. It’s a real community,” comments Despina Panayiotou Theodosiou, CEO at Tototheo Maritime & President at WISTA International in an interview with the Cyprus ...

S&P Global, late on Friday, affirmed its rating for Cyprus at ‘BBB-/A-3’ for long- and short-term foreign and local currency sovereign credit ratings for Cyprus. The outlook ...

Britain’s top EU adviser David Frost on Sunday defended Britain’s unilateral move to smooth post-Brexit trade between Britain and Northern Ireland, over which the EU has promised to ...

By deciding to leave production unchanged for another month at its meeting on Thursday, OPEC+ risks causing the oil market to overheat. The expanded group of oil exporters defied expectations ...

21CY01 Technical Support for capacity building and methodological support for the effective preparation and implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Plan 130,000 21CY06 Preparation and implementation of green taxation reform in ...

Will the EastMed pipeline bypass Cyprus? by Dr. Charles Ellinas The Greek and Cypriot press abounds with news and denials that a new plan has emerged for the much-talked about ...

Just because cars are going electric, is not to say they are getting boring. Rather the opposite: the move towards electrification is producing some of the hottest automotive propositions in ...