Slovenia and the Czech Republic are among the most peaceful countries in the world, ranking 8th and 10th respectively in the latest edition of the Global Peace Index (GPI), published by the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP). Elsewhere in...
Tag - Latvia
A new report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) claims that while the Latvian economy is thriving, with strong job growth driving...
Twelve countries of the emerging Europe region have been ranked among the 63 most competitive economies in IMD’s 2019 World Competitiveness Ranking. According to the...
Results from across the emerging Europe region suggest that with the notable exception of Hungary, where Fidesz won by a landslide, broadly pro-European parties have...
A selection of articles about emerging Europe published elsewhere this week, all of which caught our eye and all of which are well worth your time. Listing them here...
The number of residence permits granted to non-EU citizens in Hungary increased by 113 per cent in 2017 to 117,026. According to Eurostat, the EU’s statistics office...
For many of the countries of emerging Europe, 2019 offers double cause for celebration: 30 years since the end of communism in 1989 and 15 years since EU membership in...
China has launched a joint China-Latvia cross-border e-commerce hub at the Baltic Container Terminal in Latvia’s capital Riga. China is Latvia’s biggest Asian trading...
The Eurovision Song Contest was established in 1956 to unite European countries after the devastation of the Second World War. In recent years, it has done exactly the...
Sweden’s largest lender, Handelsbanken, is the latest bank to announce that it will be leaving the Baltic market, closing its branches in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania...
Of the 10 countries that joined the European Union 15 years ago, Poland is definitely an EU success story: it has become more outward-looking and confident as well as...
Economic growth across the regions in which the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) operates is broadly expected to track the global economy lower in...
