Often eclipsed by its two Baltic neighbours Estonia and Lithuania, Latvia’s response to the coronavirus pandemic has been both impressive and highly effective...
Tag - Business Climate
With most of emerging Europe under severe lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, all travel has come to a halt and the region’s tourism sector looks set to be...
So many forecasts, so many assumptions, so many reports. I’ve spent the week reading them all, and have pulled together the most coherent and interesting into one...
While civic activism was critical to both the 2014 Maidan Revolution in Ukraine and the 2018 Velvet Revolution in Armenia, a question remains as to whether or not civil...
The coronavirus pandemic is unfortunately giving authoritarians and would-be authoritarians globally an excuse to aggrandise power, evidenced by the recent “emergency...
A court in Bratislava sentenced former soldier Miroslav Marček to 23 years prison on April 6 for the murder of journalist Ján Kuciak (pictured above) and his fiancée...
Over the last three decades Poland has become the most successful economy in Europe. Since 1989, the country has increased its GDP per capita by almost 150 per cent...
I first arrived in the Western Ukrainian city of Lviv at the beginning of 2003. Lviv is about 75 km away from the border with Poland and some 600 from Kyiv, Ukraine’s...
Until now, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has invested over € 21 billion in more than 1,000 projects across six countries of Eastern Europe...
