Polish employers are becoming increasingly concerned with long waiting times for foreigners’ work permits, Polish Radio reports. 

The Main Hall of Akvárium Klub will host three French artists on April 9 at a free event entitled "What the France Night", held within the framework of cooperation between the venue and Budapest Spring Festival, according to a press release sent to the Budapest Business Journal.

Small and medium-sized enterprises in Serbia will benefit from better access to finance thanks to a EUR 15 million European Bank for Reconstruction and Development loan to Banca Intesa Belgrade for on-lending to private businesses, the EBRD says. 

The Government Debt Management Agency (ÁKK) bought back a combined HUF 12.32 bln of bonds expiring in 2021 before maturity at a reverse auction on Wednesday, state news wire MTI reports.

Listed real estate broker Duna Houseʼs consolidated after-tax profit fell 40% to HUF 1 billion last year, an earnings report released late Tuesday shows, state news wire MTI reports.

Fitch Ratings has re-affirmed Bulgaria’s sovereign long-term foreign and local currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDRs) at "BBB", with a positive outlook, according to the Sofia Globe.

According to a recent report by the Central Statistical Office (KSH), some 21,127 new dwellings were built in 2019, 20% more than in 2018.

Liszt Ferenc International operator Budapest Airport will start checking the temperature of passengers arriving on direct flights from Seoul on Wednesday, state news wire MTI reports.

Serbia’s current account deficit rose to USD 586.5 million in December last year from USD 390 mln in the same month a year earlier, the National Bank of Serbia (NBS) reported. 

The number of food vending machines in operation has dropped to about 20,000 from the previous 35,000 over the past year and a half, according to the National Vending Machine Association (NASZ), writes Magyar Hírlap.

After a few years of stagnation, the proportion of relatively young Hungarian people living with their parents in the same household has increased significantly according to Eurostat’s updated database, says G7.hu.

The Czech government has backed a bill to introduce class action to the law, thereby allowing people with identical or similar claims to assert these in court jointly, in single proceedings, Czech Radio reports. 

Croatia’s consumer price inflation accelerated to 2% year-on-year in January, from 1.4% in December, the Croatian Bureau of Statistics (Crostat) says.

Hungarian lawmakers on Tuesday voted to suspend compensation payments to incarcerated individuals for overcrowded prison conditions pending the results of a national survey, according to a report by state news wire MTI.

Teachersʼ salaries will rise by 10% from July, Human Resource Minister Miklós Kásler said on Monday, according to a report by Hungarian news agency MTI.

The annual inflation rate in Serbia rose to 2.0% in January, its highest level since May, from 1.9% in the previous month, data from the Statistical Office of the Serb Republic (SORS) shows. 

Organizers of Sziget Festival say that a limited number of day tickets, cheaper than last year, for the event will go on sale on March 3. Sziget also revealed the day-by-day breakdown of already announced performances.

The Government Debt Management Agency (ÁKK) sold HUF 28 billion of discount three-month T-bills at auction on Tuesday, cutting its original offer by HUF 2 bln, state news wire MTI reports.

The X-Europe project, an initiative born out of the European Commissionʼs Horizon 2020 program, brings together F6S, TNW, Design Terminal, Growth Tribe, and TechChill in order to help a total of 150 deeptech startups grow, according to a press release sent to the Budapest Business Journal.