There are fewer democracies in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia than at any point in the past 26 years, according to a new report from human rights watchdog...
Tag - Business Climate
A PwC survey of more than 5,000 CEOs globally reveals record levels of optimism, although CEOs in the emerging Europe region are taking a more cautious approach to...
As the world continues to recover from the coronavirus pandemic, economic freedom will be more important than ever, says a new report from the Heritage Foundation. In...
Freedom in the World 2021, published by US-based research and advocacy group Freedom House, finds that fewer than a fifth of the world’s people now live in fully free...
Emerging Europe has been crunching the numbers to see if the countries of Central and Eastern Europe really are as ‘low tax’ as they sometimes claim. The...
Three emerging Europe states – Czechia, Latvia and Lithuania – have been named among the world’s top performers in terms of regulatory best practice...
Pushed by Covid-19, one of emerging Europe’s most cash-heavy economies is moving online. In Ukraine, the share of digital, non-cash transactions — in total volume...
Despite some improvement in recent years, levels of state capture in the Western Balkans remain “unacceptably high”, according to a new policy brief from...
One of the most common misconceptions regarding authoritarian regimes is the widespread belief that they are opposed by business. The notion that authoritarian leaders...
Georgia has come a long way since the fall of Eduard Shevardnadze in 2003 and the chaos caused by a war with Russia in 2008, pursuing ever-closer economic, social and...
Georgia is emerging Europe’s highest ranked country in the latest edition of the Fraser Institute’s annual Economic Freedom of the World report. The country in the...
European Union countries lost an estimated 140 billion euros in Value-Added Tax (VAT) revenues in 2018, according to a new report released by the European Commission on...
