Political, economic and social problems continue to emerge in the EU’s Eastern European countries. While core Europe has so far escaped the tug of contraction, shares...
Opinion
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The European Commission’s new plastic strategy is moving closer to final completion, after the European Parliament added an even longer list of banned plastic...
A year ago, at the end of October 2017, the operations of the Polish FinTech Aforti Exchange were being set up in Romania. Romania was the first foreign country where...
The liberal-centrist opposition mobilised its core supporters in urban areas winning high profile mayoral races, but the right-wing ruling party won the more politically...
The role of gold for many countries in transition has not received the proper attention. Many of the countries in transition began their journeys to market economies...
At a time at which a clear pledge to European integration and a stronger commitment to reform would be needed, the debate on the future of Europe is not taking off –...
How CEE countries are primed to take advantage of the rapidly changing nature of the global sourcing industry
The stakes are high today, as we continue to live in a period of intense global economic volatility. Here in the US, with the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), we’re...
Finding the right people is not a problem, but finding the right skills increasingly is.
Recent events suggest that Russia’s political regime, forced to tackle certain traumatic reforms, has begun to lose focus. As discussed in a previous report, the social...
The case of activist Lyudmyla Kozlovska, president of the Polish-based human rights NGO Open Dialogue Foundation (ODF), who was expelled from the EU by the Polish...
On September 17, leaders from Central and Eastern Europe gathered in Bucharest to take part at the third Three Seas Initiative (TSI) summit. Jointly led by Poland and...