We’re now re-opening the application phase for our annual pitch competition, our goal is to find and showcase Europe’s best seed and pre-seed startups out there! For this year’s pitch competition, we expect a total of about 1,000 applications.
The Prize Package: The winning startup team of this year’s Pitch Competi…>
Accerion is a fast-growing high-tech company building positioning technology for next-generation autonomous industrial robots. By combining an advanced optical system, embedded C++ software and state-of-the-art processing hardware, our sensor system is able to work without any infrastructure in the surroundings of a…>
Latvia leads CEE in World Bank gender equality indexLatvia is the only country in emerging Europe with a perfect score in the World Bank’s latest Women, Business and the Law 2021 report.
Dutch parliament declares Chinese treatment of Uighurs a ‘genocide’The Dutch parliament on Thursday became the first European legislature to call the Chinese treatment of its Uighur Muslim minority a "genocide."
Coronavirus: France announces new border checks with GermanyFrance is set to tighten controls in its Moselle region, as the rate of infection due to new variants rises in the area. From Monday, cross-border workers will have to submit to a PCR test before crossing.
Italy demands €733M in fines from food delivery platformsCouriers who worked for Uber Eats, Glovo, Just Eat and Deliveroo in Italy from 2017 to 2020 must now be treated as "coordinated and continuous workers," prosecutors declared.
'I have only bad news' PM warns Hungary, as hospitals face worst weeks yetHungary is entering its toughest period since the start of the coronavirus pandemic and over the next two weeks hospitals will come under strain like never before, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Thursday.
Brexit: Tory MPs call on PM to scrap Northern Ireland Protocol - a year after they voted for itIn a 38-page report, the European Research Group (ERG) of Tory Brexiteers concluded that the Northern Ireland Protocol "has had a profound and negative effect".
Italy warns riders 'treated like slaves' by food delivery firmsItaly is going after online food delivery companies, with one prosecutor lamenting Wednesday that the cyclists who deliver the food, many of them immigrants, are practically treated like slaves.
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