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...
Opinion
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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...
Brexit negotiations started in Brussels on June 19, almost exactly a year after the UK’s vote to leave the EU.
A recent public opinion poll confirms that Moldovan society is highly divided as regards its approach to the EU and Russia. 52 per cent, of those surveyed, would choose...
Since entering the European Union, Romania has shown great potential for developing its innovation areas.
Romania is a strategic economic partner for the German economy. Bilateral economic relations continued to increase, once more, in 2016, as figures, published by the...
Macedonia has a new coalition government comprised of SDSM (the former communist party) and two ethnic Albanian junior coalition partners: DUI (a party founded by the...
The Romanian banking system is undoubtedly the banking system with the highest liquidity level in the European Union because of its 40 per cent immediate liquidity...
Only six months after winning the parliamentary elections, Romania’s Social Democratic Party is in turmoil following an attempt by the party’s leader, Liviu Dragnea, to...
The five scenarios Jean Claude Juncker recently presented, concerning the future of the EU, are still provoking lively conversation in all corners of the European...
