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 Staff
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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...
Ukraine has opened its first-ever country house at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, and is running a a week-long programme entitled Ukraine: Creativity...
Ukraine’s unexplored natural gas reserves are estimated at 5.5 trillion cubic metres (tcm), according to state-owned Ukrgeofizik, the country’s largest provider of...
Banca Transilvania, Romania’s second-largest bank, has finalised the purchase of a 39 per cent stake in Moldova’s third-largest lender Victoriabank. It is the first time...
A new report, published by Moody’s Investors Service on January 17, claims that the outlook for sovereign creditworthiness in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) is...
Doubts as to whether the Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis could continue in his post were raised on January 16 after he failed to win parliamentary backing for his...
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe continued a six-day visit to the Baltics and the Western Balkans with a stop in Sofia on January 14, where he met with his Bulgarian...
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, is providing a financing package of over 30 million euro to IMMER Group, a...
“Political noise notwithstanding, the region’s economies are in a sweet spot, and should continue to ride the booming Eurozone wave this year.” That is the headline of a...
HSBC – the world’s seventh largest bank by total assets and the largest in Europe – announced on January 4 that it is to launch a business desk in...
Local innovation has progressed in a spectacular way over the past decade throughout Emerging Europe, although there are still countries – in particular Albania...
