Emerging Europe enjoyed another solid year of M&A activity in 2017, closing the year with 2113 completed deals across the region – up 6 per cent compared to 2016...
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Romanian President Klaus Iohannis appointed Viorica Dancila, an obscure member of the European parliament who once claimed that Iran and Pakistan were EU members, as the...
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...
A Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between China and Georgia took effect on January 1, 2018. It means that around 94 per cent of Georgian products will be free from customs...
China and Moldova have formally agreed to begin talks on the establishment of a free-trade deal. Officials from the two countries signed an agreement in Beijing on...
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...
The combative president of Moldova Igor Dodon potentially sparked a new political crisis on December 28 when he vetoed the appointment of seven new ministers. It is the...
Jan van Bilsen, IFC Regional Manager for the South Caucasus, talks to Andrew Wrobel about Georgia’s great potential, as well as some of the challenges it still faces.
Investors don’t appear to have yet reacted to Brussels triggering Article 7 against Poland. Bond yields have increased slightly. WIG 20, the Warsaw Stock Exchange’s main...
The European Commission begins sanction proceedings against Poland for its attacks on the rule of law, Hungary declares to fight Poland’s corner and all of a sudden...
Despite the ruling PSD-ALDE coalition’s chaotic fiscal policy, and its ongoing attacks on the justice system, Romania can and will continue to be a factor of stability...
Serbia took another large step towards accession to the European Union (EU) last week, opening two more chapters in its negotiations and reiterating its commitment to...