Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission, will kick-off a tour of the Western Balkans on February 25 with a trip to Macedonia. The trip is aimed at...
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The IFC, the commercial arm of the World Bank Group, in partnership with the Swiss and Ukrainian governments, is rolling out a new financial instrument – crop receipts –...
The Estonian bank LHV is opening a branch in London. The UK Financial Conduct Authority has granted the bank approval and the financial institution will now register an...
Just 28 out of 51 directives covered by Moldova’s Priority Reform Action Roadmap for the second half of 2017 were implemented, a joint report by Expert-Grup, a think...
In a new edition of the Open Budget Survey (OBS), which assesses budget accountability and transparency in 115 countries across the world, Georgia has emerged as Central...
Emerging Europe’s biggest airline Wizz Air announced on January 31 that it had posted record third-quarter profits in the three months to December 31. The airline...
There was some good news for Poland’s beleaguered government on January 30 after Statistics Poland announced that the country’s economy had grown by 4.6 per cent in 2017...
Emerging Europe speaks to three business leaders about the prospects for growth in the business services sector growth in CEE: Charlie Aird, global leader at PwC Shared...
In just a few months since its launch, COBCOE Connects has linked around a dozen businesses across Europe.
Ukraine’s government hopes to raise more than 550 million euros this year by selling off thousands of state-owned firms, a process which was made easier in January when...
The Warsaw Stock Exchange’s main index, the WIG, peaked at 67,933.05 points on January 23, hitting an all-time high. The previous historic high was achieved before the...
Emerging Europe enjoyed another solid year of M&A activity in 2017, closing the year with 2113 completed deals across the region – up 6 per cent compared to 2016...
