Over the past couple of years, Russia’s role in the Western Balkans has been gaining ever more attention. While we know that Moscow is trying to extend its influence...
Tag - Environment & Energy
I first arrived in Ukraine more than 20 years ago, when I was transferred to Lviv for about nine months to lead one of IFC’s first advisory projects in support of the...
With Slovakia leading the Visegrad Group for the next year, Ukraine is now hoping to revive stalled cooperation with the group, possibly turning the V4 into the V5...
Unit Six of Bulgaria’s only operational nuclear power plant at Kozloduy will function until 2051. Rosatom, a Russian state nuclear energy company, has signed a contract...
The people of Zagreb stand to benefit from a large investment in the modernisation of their electricity and heating supply under a joint effort by the European Bank for...
A month before Bulgaria concluded its six-month presidency of the Council of the European Union on 30 June, the country hosted a European Competition Day. “Particular...
According to a 2017 overview of the Ukrainian investment market released in May 2018 by the Ukrainian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (UVCA) in...
If what you eat is what you are, then what you wear is what you would like to be. Clothes represent projections of our relationship with the world and with ourselves, a...
Bulgaria’s anti-monopoly commission has vetoed the purchase of ČEZ Bulgaria – and all of its subsidiary enterprises in the country – by the previously unheard of...
Serbian authorities are pursuing two projects that will boost the use of green energy in the country: expanding the network of electric vehicle charging stations and...
The Czech economy is thriving, with robust employment, expanding exports and falling government debt. Efforts should now focus on boosting workforce skills and...
When the EBRD was created in 1991 to help the shattered economies of the former Soviet bloc, it was well known that these economies were massively inefficient in their...
