The pension system in Romania was transformed into a multi-pillar system only in 2007-8, after two decades of democracy, although there have been many attempts to reform...
Opinion
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The South Caucasus has a strategic locational advantage by connecting Europe with Asia and the Middle East. After the collapse of the Soviet Union three internationally...
The aerospace sector worldwide is today steadily and rapidly regaining its technological glamour and high business attractiveness, involving not only old and new players...
According to Eurostat demography forecasts, the population of Europe is rapidly growing. The details of demographic research results clearly show that within the...
Bulgaria is increasingly attracting the interest of foreign investors and the country currently has five or six possibilities of bringing in a large car manufacturer. At...
In Hungary, as in the rest of Europe, there are two broad factions. One emerged in the 1990s, following the fall of the Soviet Union and the signing of the Maastricht...
The financial industry is undergoing a revolution. And I do not mean the ascendency of the fintechs, undermining the monopoly of the banks, or at least influencing their...
After the fall of the Iron Curtain, when emerging European countries began implementing market economy principles, the region was seen as a low-cost manufacturing...
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko last week extended the list of companies subject to economic sanctions by including the Ribnita Steelworks (MMZ) – one of the...
I decided to emigrate from the United States because of its pervasive car culture, rampant consumerism, wholesale privatisation of nature and aggressive militarism...
Several issues are set to make negotiations for the EU’s next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), which will run from 2021 to 2027, even more difficult than usual...
After the fall of communism almost 30 years ago everything looked to be clear. A system built on the principles of a command economy and repressed authoritarian politics...