Moldova and Romania have long toyed with the idea of (re)unification. The two countries, which were a single entity until Russia annexed present-day Moldova in 1812 (and...
Tag - Demographics
In 2015, Bucureşti-Ilfov, Romania’s capital-city region, had a GDP per capita of €19,300 amounting to 136 per cent of the EU average (GDP per capita PPS, EU28=100). At...
Nobody really noticed it at the time, but everything changed in the year 2000, when Romania was invited to join the European Union.
The Socialist-led government, in office since the beginning of the year, has started implementing its popular election programme by further cutting the VAT rate and...
It was on January 1, 2007, some fifty years after the creation of the European Economic Community, in the Treaty of Rome, that Romania officially became a full member of...
In 1990, GDP per capita in Poland and Ukraine was roughly the same and amounted to some $1,600. By the end of 2016, Polish GDP grew to $12,700. In 2013, GDP per capita...
Entirely by chance, in 2006, I ended up controlling a small bank in Lviv, Ukraine, and I have been doing it ever since.
