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Source: World Bank
Currency: EuroGDP: 913.7 billion USD (2018)
GDP per capita: 53,024.06 USD (2018)
GDP growth rate: 2.6% annual change (2018)
GNI per capita: 58,140 PPP dollars (2018)
Gross national income: 980.2 billion PPP dollars (2018)
Internet users: 93.2% of the population (2017)
GNI per capita: 58,140 PPP dollars (2018)
Gross national income: 980.2 billion PPP dollars (2018)
Internet users: 93.2% of the population (2017)
Vitol and NIOC pre-empt Trump with $1bn pre-finance Iranian oil deal
Vitol, the world’s largest oil trader, has agreed to provide the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC)…
Shell looks for smaller stake in Baltic LNG as costs rise to $11.5bn
In-house valuation teams at Gazprom and Shell have estimated the total investment required to develop the…
Qatargas undercuts Shell to secure $1bn Pakistan LNG contract
Pakistan LNG contract: Royal Dutch Shell looks set to lose its contract to supply Pakistan with LNG worth over $1bn…
Dutch NACO consultancy wins Tehran IKIA airport town contract
IKIA airport: The Netherlands Airport Consultant Company (NACO) has been awarded a five-year contract to provide…
Telenor to sell $2.4bn stake in VimpelCom
Norway’s telecoms operator Telenor has decided to offload its 33% stake in Vimpelcom, the Netherlands-based owners of the…
Shell looks to acquire Sakhalin-3 stake through asset swap
In an attempt to consolidate its presence in Russia’s oil and gas sector, Royal Dutch Shell…
Russia considers banning European flower imports
European flower imports: Russia’s agricultural watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor is considering slapping a ban on the import of flowers and other…
Dutch exports to Russia down 40% after MH17 tragedy
Dutch exports to Russia were down nearly 40% in the first four months of 2015 as relations between…
Business as usual for oil sector as CEOs get set to descend on St Petersburg for SPIEF
Senior executives from some of the world’s biggest oil companies – including BP, Royal Dutch Shell…
BG acquisition may force Shell to sell stake in Karachaganak
Karachaganak: Royal Dutch Shell’s forthcoming acquisition of the BG Group exploration company may trigger the forced sale…
Heineken turns to kvass as russian beer market dries up
Heineken turns to kvass: With Russian demand for beer in decline, Dutch brewer Heineken has begun…
AIIB Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank admits five new member states
AIIB, the newly formed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, has formally welcomed Brazil, Georgia, Finland, Denmark and…
Heineken launches Feilong rice beer brand in Siberia and Russia’s Far East
Heineken launches Feilong: Heineken has launched a new brand of rice beer for Russia’s Far East and Siberian…
Gouda cheese plant planned for Azerbaijan
Gouda cheese plant: Scherjon, the Dutch dairy production equipment manufacturer, is planning to open a 500-hectare dairy…
Rotterdam oil terminal to go ahead despite protests
Rotterdam oil terminal: The Russian Summa construction company is to go ahead and build a €750m oil terminal…
FAS approves Yandex auto website acquisition
Yandex auto website acquisition: Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) has given Yandex search engine’s Dutch parent company Yandex NV…
US leads Kazakhstan FDI table while Holland pulls back
Kazakhstan FDI: The US was the largest investor in Kazakhstan in the first quarter of the…