Place: central and eastern Europe

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

news

Online payments company Stripe expands to eastern Europe

Stripe, the €19.8bn-valued online payments company founded by Limerick brothers Patrick and John Collison, is set to expand into eight European countries, primarily on the eastern side of the continent.

business

KBC records €136m Ireland loan loss

world

Sarkozy on the attack over Roma expulsions

news

Irish top European activity league

business

Smurfit Kappa announces closure of Slovakia mill

business

Fighting for EU farm funding

Ryanair shares take big knock

SHARES in Ryanair fell the most in four years in Dublin trading yesterday after Citigroup cut the airline’s profit and share-price estimates, citing oil prices and the pound’s drop against the euro.

Thu, 10 Jan, 2008

Dublin tops Berlin, Rome and Paris on rate of homicide

DUBLIN is in the top half of the European table for the number of homicides per head of population.

Tue, 27 Nov, 2007

EU referendum optimists are only fooling themselves at this stage

THE prospects for the EU constitution will be weighing on Bertie Ahern’s mind over the next week and on this - as on many issues - he will be conflicted.

Thu, 09 Jun, 2005

Patten condemns Ireland’s refusal to back EU expansion

Ireland’s refusal to back enlargement of the European Union will condemn many countries to go on paying for a brutal past of ‘‘organised criminality’’, Commissioner Chris Patten said today.

Thu, 21 Feb, 2002