The resurgence of Covid-19 deepens uncertainty as the European Commission releases its latest forecasts. Economic activity in Europe suffered a severe shock in the first...
Tag - Economy & Politics
Pushed by Covid-19, one of emerging Europe’s most cash-heavy economies is moving online. In Ukraine, the share of digital, non-cash transactions — in total volume...
Slovakia this past weekend tested around two-thirds of its population for Covid-19, some 3.6 million people aged between 10 and 65. Of those tested, 38,359 were found...
Georgia’s ruling party, Georgian Dream, has won a comfortable majority in a parliamentary election but the country’s opposition has cried foul, alleging that...
Despite some improvement in recent years, levels of state capture in the Western Balkans remain “unacceptably high”, according to a new policy brief from...
Nicolas Schmit, European Commissioner for Jobs and Social Rights, has said that the idea of a common, uniform minimum wage for the whole of the European Union is...
Just a few days before Moldova votes in a presidential election, United Nations Moldova has published and developed a Covid-19 response and recovery plan for the...
The Ukrainian energy sector is currently experiencing a deep crisis. As in many countries around the world, an extremely warm winter and the Covid-19 pandemic has caused...
Ingrida Šimonytė (pictured above, centre, on the campaign trail) is likely to be Lithuania’s next prime minister after her party, the Homeland Union, clearly won...
Once the Kremlin is persuaded that Joe Biden will become the US’s next president, it may go for the jugular. But it is triggering civil conflict, not interfering in the...
Emerging Europe’s capital markets need to collaborate to boost the attractiveness of corporate bonds
Despite local, regional, and EU-level efforts the capital markets and by extension the corporate bond markets in Central and Eastern Europe are still lagging...
The Covid-19 pandemic is hitting North Macedonia hard, with lockdowns, disrupted supply chains, and a prolonged, adverse epidemiological situation darkening an already...
