In its latest Index of Economic Freedom, the Heritage Foundation, a US think tank, reports that 132 countries around the world have increased their levels of economic...
Tag - Latvia
Latvia’s Procurement Monitoring Bureau (IUB) has blocked the country’s state-run railway company Pasažieru Vilciens (PV) from closing a 225 million-euro deal. In...
The world’s largest social network, Facebook, has announced plans to open a content review centre in the Bulgarian capital Sofia. The media giant will work...
Estonia has been named as the least corrupt country in emerging Europe in the latest Corruption Perceptions Index, published by Transparency International. The Baltic...
New data from Eurostat, the European Union’s statistics department, have revealed that housing prices in Slovenia rose 15.1 per cent year-on-year in the third...
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...
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...
