Bloomberg Exiled opposition leader of Belarus Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya vowed to continue her campaign against authoritarian ruler Alexander Lukashenko after a court in the country jailed her husband for 18 years. “The dictator publicly takes revenge on his strongest opponents,” Tsikhanouskaya said on Twitter, following the conviction of Siarhei Tskihanouski at a closed trial in a Belarus prison. “We won’t ...

  Bloomberg The European Union (EU) agreed to broaden accession talks with Serbia, the largest of the six Balkan countries aspiring to join the bloc, reviving a process that had shown little progress for two years. None of the Balkan aspirants are expected to join the bloc before 2025 at the earliest, as enlargement fatigue and a decade of crises ...

    Bloomberg Europe’s technology sector is set to bring in more than $100 billion of annual investment for the first time this year, capping off a period of deal-making and surging valuations. With nearly three times as much capital projected to be raised this year compared with 2020, the total number of tech companies in Europe valued at more ...