In the World Bank’s Doing Business 2015 report, Croatia ranked 65th, much higher than neighbouring Serbia and Bosnia Herzegovina, but what really stands out is the...
Opinion
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Development of nuclear energy in many countries has overcome the temporary slowdown following the Fukushima accident that was caused by the largest seismic and tsunami...
The Albanian Prime Minister recently blamed the energy crisis in the country on the Democratic Party, which had been in power until September 2013, and said the current...
I honestly had no idea what to expect when I was coming to Minsk for the first time in August 2014. I don’t think I had ever thought I would be taken off the street by...
The nickname of Poland as a “Green Island” was coined by the government in 2009. The big map behind Prime Minister Tusk showed all Europe in red, with the GDP falling...
The past 25 years have seen a dramatic transformation in Europe’s former communist countries, resulting in their reintegration into the global economy, and, in most...
All over the world, words such as “innovation” or “startup” are coming to be a large part of almost every globally oriented, business conversation. That shouldn’t be a...
On 3 December 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced officially that South Stream, which aimed to bring some 63 billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas per year...
As during its presidency of the Council of the European Union Latvia leads the development and implementation of the EU Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker’s...
For about 20 years, the Swiss franc was the most stable currency and was regarded a “safe haven” by a lot of borrowers but that stability ended along with...
The economic success Poland has experienced in recent years is not matched with similar achievements in innovation. As further progress is not possible by using only...
In the past 25 years Slovakia has undergone a major transformation, leaving behind the inefficiency of a planned economy while still trying to get the most from its post...
