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...
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The European parliament’s rapporteur on Kosovo Igor Soltes said on January 31 that Kosovo was “off the train” to visa liberalisation. In an interview with the Kosovan...
Although it still has much work to do in terms of improving the range and reach of the services it provides, Slovakia’s national heathcare system has been declared CEE’s...
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...
Reforms, independent anti-corruption institutions, tax changes: these are just a few things that the new government in Ukraine is undertaking to improve the climate for...
Polish Bank Pekao, which returned to majority Polish ownership in 2016 and currently operates only in its home country, has announced its intentions to expand...
Belarus President Aleksander Lukashenko first ordinance of 2018 was to abolish the so-called ‘Parasite Law’, introduced in 2015. The controversial law classified those...
In 2017 the Hungarian government assigned more than 65 billion forints (210 million euros) to advertising companies, tripling the budget planned four years ago. With...
In a joint statement the President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker and the Commission’s First Vice-President Frans Timmermans warned Romania’s government...
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...
Researchers at the Eastern European Construction Forecasting Association (EECFA), who each winter put together a detailed outlook of the construction industry in much of...
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...
