Polish Bank Pekao, which returned to majority Polish ownership in 2016 and currently operates only in its home country, has announced its intentions to expand...
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The Warsaw Stock Exchange’s main index, the WIG, peaked at 67,933.05 points on January 23, hitting an all-time high. The previous historic high was achieved before the...
Slow progress in raising living standards, and widening inequality have contributed to political polarisation and erosion of social cohesion in many advanced and...
Four Emerging Europe countries are among the leading nations ranked in the first edition of the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Readiness for the Future of Production...
“Political noise notwithstanding, the region’s economies are in a sweet spot, and should continue to ride the booming Eurozone wave this year.” That is the headline of a...
Prague was CEE’s top performer for office investment during the first nine months of 2017, the Czech capital seeing deals worth a total of 746 million euros completed...
HSBC – the world’s seventh largest bank by total assets and the largest in Europe – announced on January 4 that it is to launch a business desk in...
Local innovation has progressed in a spectacular way over the past decade throughout Emerging Europe, although there are still countries – in particular Albania...
The success of the FPO party in the Austrian parliamentary elections, coupled with billionaire upstart Andrej Babiš in the Czech Republic becoming prime minister in the...
Annual inflation in the European Union was 1.8 per cent in November 2017, up from 1.7 per cent in October 2017. Inflation in the Euro Area also rose, from 1.4 per cent...
The President of the Czech Republic Milos Zeman formally signed the country’s 2018 budget on December 20, a day after it had been approved by parliament. The budget sees...
I remember very well my first Christmas in Hungary. One of my colleagues had invited me to a Christmas dinner at his house. It was a cold and snowy day but as soon as I...
