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...
Emerging Europe Insight
The byline Emerging Europe Insight is used to denote articles to which several members of the Emerging Europe/Reinvantage team may have contributed.
Local innovation has progressed in a spectacular way over the past decade throughout Emerging Europe, although there are still countries – in particular Albania...
China and Moldova have formally agreed to begin talks on the establishment of a free-trade deal. Officials from the two countries signed an agreement in Beijing on...
The combative president of Moldova Igor Dodon potentially sparked a new political crisis on December 28 when he vetoed the appointment of seven new ministers. It is the...
Investors don’t appear to have yet reacted to Brussels triggering Article 7 against Poland. Bond yields have increased slightly. WIG 20, the Warsaw Stock Exchange’s main...
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is to provide a loan of up to 350 million US dollars to support the modernisation and environmental upgrade...
Annual inflation in the European Union was 1.8 per cent in November 2017, up from 1.7 per cent in October 2017. Inflation in the Euro Area also rose, from 1.4 per cent...
The President of the Czech Republic Milos Zeman formally signed the country’s 2018 budget on December 20, a day after it had been approved by parliament. The budget sees...
The European Union has taken the unprecedented step of triggering Article 7 of the European Treaty and moving towards sanctions against Poland in order to prevent...
More than 1000 new laws – almost half of which directly impact on business – were passed across six CEE countries (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland...
A major new report carried out by See News for the Sofia Investment Agency shows that more than one in five Bulgarian workers is employed in Sofia. The unemployment rate...
Amidst fierce criticism from abroad and protests at home, Poland’s newly appointed Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki published an English-language opinion editorial in...