The centre of Lithuania’s economic, academic and cultural life, it is no surprise that Kaunas has gained international recognition in recent years as a business process...
Tag - Demographics
Virginijus Sinkevičius, Lithuania’s minister of the economy, speaks to Andrew Wrobel about economic opportunities, as well as the challenges that the country is facing...
Slovenians have the highest level of English proficiency of any country in emerging Europe, according to a new report. The 2018 English Proficiency Index, put together...
At a time at which a clear pledge to European integration and a stronger commitment to reform would be needed, the debate on the future of Europe is not taking off –...
Hundreds pensioners from various civil society groups have protested outside the Council of Ministers building in central Sofia to demand the recalculation of pensions...
The European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET) has positively evaluated the implementation of EU-Georgia Association Agreement, while stressing the areas...
Armenia’s government announced on September 17 that it plans to increase pensions by 60 per cent from January 1, 2019. According to the new bill, the new basic pension...
Labour costs soared in Romania during the second quarter of 2018, rising 9.3 per cent when compared with the first quarter, and by more than 15 per cent compared to the...
Throughout the last 20 years, pension reform has been a crucial topic of public debate in the Czech Republic. Since the major overhaul of the pension systems in 1995...
“Slovenia needs a comprehensive tax reform that rebalances the tax mix away from employee social security contributions (SSCs) towards personal income tax (PIT) and less...
The European Business Association (EBA) has called on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank to place pressure on Ukraine to introduce a second-level...
Since 2013 GDP growth has picked up continuously in the EU member states of Central and Eastern Europe (EU-CEE), reaching an average of above four per cent in 2017...