In autumn 2013, the strong and charismatic Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, announced the Silk Road Economic Belt and Maritime Silk Road of the 21st...
Opinion
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...
When an emerging economy starts a conscious journey towards international financial markets, in order to attract foreign investments, there are...
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...
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...
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...
“Republika Srpska (RS) is a state and Russia is its ally”. Milorad Dodik, the president of the predominantly Serb entity within Bosnia and...
Since the current Polish government came into power, last year, they have advocated the need to tighten up the existing tax system. They maintain...
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...
On September 11, Belarus is holding a parliamentary election. The EU will need to respond to this vote in a carefully calibrated manner. While the...
Responsible leaders from the CEE region believe they cannot avoid the question: ‘What is the next break-out point for Central and Eastern Europe in...
When the UK’s population voted on whether to remain within the European Union in June 2016, the result was neither expected nor welcomed by chambers...
My very first encounter with any of the post-Soviet countries took place in the late 1970s, or in the middle of the Cold War, if you will. Back then...