“Political and economic relations between the United States and Belarus are enjoying a resurgence. Ten years ago political relations between our two countries were...
Opinion
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Despite the slowed growth of the world economy, Brexit and the other challenges of the European Union including a migration crisis and the instability of economic...
Dutch Prime Minister, Mark Rutte, recently announced that his country is unlikely to give the green light to the EU Association’s agreement with Ukraine, following an...
In autumn 2013, the strong and charismatic Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, announced the Silk Road Economic Belt and Maritime Silk Road of the 21st Century (in short: One...
When I meet a foreigner for the first time, the moment I start a conversation about Romania, it seems as if we are discussing a topic where each of us has a completely...
When an emerging economy starts a conscious journey towards international financial markets, in order to attract foreign investments, there are several systemic and...
This has been a rough year for the countries of Central and Eastern Europe in terms of governance, with neighbours Poland and Ukraine seeing the biggest challenges.
Being eager to know more about Belarus, one might face a situation where certain biased clichés are what is coming first. But it pays to search further so that the real...
The longevity of Belarus’ president, Aleksander Lukashenko, owes as much to the structure of the country’s economy as it does to his sharp and often criticised...
“Republika Srpska (RS) is a state and Russia is its ally”. Milorad Dodik, the president of the predominantly Serb entity within Bosnia and Herzegovina, is not someone...
Since the current Polish government came into power, last year, they have advocated the need to tighten up the existing tax system. They maintain that the current...
With an average growth rate of 10 per cent over the last decade and an increasingly affluent population of 1.3 billion people, China is a dream market for many...
