The proportion of Europe’s pensioners at risk of poverty is highest in four emerging Europe countries, new figures from Eurostat, the European Union’s...
Tag - Latvia
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...
Latvia’s president, Raimonds Vējonis, has nominated Krišjānis Kariņš, the leader of the small New Unity party, to form a government. Mr Kariņš is the third nominee...
The National Bank of Latvia’s chief economist, Oļegs Krasnopjorovs, has said that the country’s economy has performed better than expected and grew by over five...
Emerging European countries spend the most on alcohol, according to new figures from the European Union’s statistics department, Eurostat. Estonia, Latvia and...
Albania moved ever closer to the EU. A huge step forward was taken in April when the European Commission recommended starting accession talks with both Albania and...
Citizenship and residency by investment – known by the acronym CRBI – has become a fully-fledged industry, with a number of organisations increasingly worried that it is...
A selection of articles about emerging Europe published elsewhere this week, all of which are well worth your time. Albania has been posting sensitive information about...
Developments in new technology are fundamental to the evolution of tax systems, both in how economies raise revenues and what they levy taxes on. According to PwC’s...
Sky News has reported that Latvia has raised concerns with Britain over what one diplomat described as “hardcore propaganda” against the UK and its allies...
Social protection expenditure in the European Union (EU) stood at 28.2 per cent of GDP in 2016, slightly down compared with 28.4 per cent in 2015, according to new data...
Just two emerging European airports make the top 30 of a new list of the busiest airports in the European Union. The data, published by Eurostat, the EU’s...
Estonian FinTech firm Fitek, which specialises in e-invoice solutions (processing and automation), has expanded to the UK market, and will invest around 600,000 UK...