It has been almost five years since the Georgian Dream’s (GD) substantial and unexpected victory in the parliamentary elections in Georgia. During these five years, the...
Opinion
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The inflow of FDI had long been considered the main driver of economic growth in the countries of Central and South-eastern Europe. During the transition to a market...
There is not, and there has never been, a more important mission for the generation, which spans communism and a free Poland, than a permanent anchoring in Western...
Time flies and, now, almost three decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, few people remember that, unlike in the majority of Central and Eastern European countries...
It is unfortunate that, in the current geopolitical climate, anyone from overseas is considered a potential threat to our so-called way of life and British values.
As far as the UK sourcing market is concerned, Romania has been on the periphery of the sourcing radar for some time now, but has never really made it to the front and...
Roughly three years ago, after graduating from UCLA Anderson and developing a severe allergy to cubicles, I moved from perpetually sunny Los Angeles to Cluj, Romania—the...
Nobody really noticed it at the time, but everything changed in the year 2000, when Romania was invited to join the European Union.
Unlike other countries in Eastern Europe, which took fairly ambitious steps to swiftly privatise key sectors of their economies in the years immediately following the...
The Socialist-led government, in office since the beginning of the year, has started implementing its popular election programme by further cutting the VAT rate and...
The Romanian economy is slowly transforming into a service-oriented one, with IT services registering the highest growth, in all components of the GDP over the last two...
On 2 February 2017, the inhabitants of Georgian capital, Tbilisi, saw the city’s two landmarks — the Bridge of Peace and the TV tower lit up in the colours of the EU...