Nationalist governments gaining ground in central Europe are breaking the consensus in the EU and NATO and presenting Vladimir Putin with new allies bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Politics

The Czech central bank governor’s bid to invest a portion of the country’s reserves into Bitcoin managed to draw more attention to the central European nation’s monetary policy than any of his predecessors bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Economics

Beyoncé and J.Lo have put a former war zone on the world's fashion radar bloomberg.com/news/features/… via Bloomberg Pursuits

Poland should ramp up its renewable capacity if it wants to quickly cut energy bills and replace soon-to-be-defunct coal-fired plants, according to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Green

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy thought he was close to a deal with the US, before everything unraveled. bloomberg.com/news/newslette… via Bloomberg

Remember Rosie the Riveter? She’s thriving in Ukraine bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Businessweek

“When Trump says that God saved him to Make America Great Again, he tells only half of the story,” says Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

CEZ AS, the biggest traded electricity producer in eastern Europe, is close to selling a nuclear project to the Czech government, sources say bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Markets

European Central Bank Governing Council member Peter Kazimir was found guilty of bribery and handed a €200,000 fine bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

A new international airport on Albania’s coast is set to start flights within weeks in a region where Donald Trump’s son-in-law is planning a glitzy development for rich tourists bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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A Trump-branded Serbia tower shows the blurry boundaries between public priorities and private profit for the president’s family. bloomberg.com/news/features/…

The Czech central bank governor touted the benefits of his country’s currency, saying that the koruna puts it in a better position to moderate price growth than the euro would bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Czech President Petr Pavel called on the US to give Europe more time and realistic goals to take care of the continent’s security and contain an increasingly aggressive Russia. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Czech President Petr Pavel calls for the country to adopt the euro as a way to help trade and avoid being left out of key decisions made by members of the currency union bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Albanian authorities want to tear down half a million structures built without permission during the mayhem that followed the collapse of communism in 1991 bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Dimitar Radev, who’ll help set euro-zone interest rates from next year, has seen more than his fair share of political upheaval bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Slovakia’s state-owned energy supplier Slovensky plynarensky priemysel aims to get as much as 100% of its gas needs from Russia next year bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Ukraine’s top prosecutor for fighting corruption says he’s optimistic that the parliament will back a bill restoring the independence of the country’s anti-graft institutions bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Czech interest-rate cuts are “almost certainly” over for now as the central bank tackles inflation risks from soaring property prices, consumer spending and an improving economic outlook bloomberg.com/news/articles/…