Although governments and healthcare managers have poured vast resources into combatting the coronavirus pandemic, first-quarter healthcare spending has actually...
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Lockdowns are coming to an end, restrictions are being relaxed. The Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia have even said that they will open their borders to...
So many forecasts, so many assumptions, so many reports. I’ve spent the week reading them all, and have pulled together the most coherent and interesting into one...
None of emerging Europe’s 23 countries currently qualifies as a full democracy. The news comes from the latest edition of the Democracy Index, an annual report...
Fifteen years ago, during the EU summit in Thessaloniki in 2003, EU leaders promised the Balkan countries that the door to EU membership would be open to them. Today...
For posted workers, the Romanian capital Bucharest is the ninth cheapest major city in the world, and the cheapest in Europe. Cheap rents, cigarettes and alcohol are...
Central and Eastern Europe does not have a single, full democracy according to the 2017 Democracy Index released early in February by the Economist Intelligence Unit...
Georgia’s trade deficit rose slightly in 2017, to 5.25 billion US dollars, an increase of just over 70 million US dollars on 2016. Overall, Georgia’s exports rose by an...
