Not that long ago, we had the pleasure of analysing not only the progress the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) have made toward liberalism [1] with the...
Tag - Latvia
This may have been independent Ukraine’s last calm summer for a while. There will soon be a reckoning with what succeeded and what did not after the revolution of 2013...
Insurance giant Coface has upgraded the country risk assessment of six emerging European countries: Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia and Serbia...
Holiday Inn, the largest hotel brand in the world, is planning to open a major new property in Latvia’s capital Riga by September 2022. The hotel will be located in the...
Latvian Arthur Analts of Variant Studio, who won the London Design Biennale’s Best Design Medal, has encouraged the Latvian government to showcase the country’s brand...
A two-day Three Seas Initiative summit in the Romanian capital Bucharest has ended with US Energy Secretary Rick Perry declaring that Europe should lessen its dependence...
Private-equity consortium Blackstone Group has agreed to pay one billion euros to Nordea and DNB for 60 per cent of their joint lender in the Baltic region, Luminor...
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is creating a Warsaw-based Central Europe hub for those European Union countries in which the EBRD still...
Rail Baltica (RB) is looking for a new CEO to replace Baiba Rubesa, who’s work at the helm of the Baltic joint venture implementing the European standard-gauge railway...
Russia’s Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (FSVPS) has halted the import of meat products from Bulgaria. The decision was taken due to...
Lithuania’s ambassador to the United States, Rolandas Krisciunas, has taken the unprecedented step of writing a letter of complaint to the retailer Walmart, after it...
Latvian national rail company Latvijas Dzelzcels (LDz) and its freight shipping subsidiary LDz Cargo are demanding 82.32 million euros from Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai...
Swedish furniture giant IKEA has opened its first store in Riga, Latvia. The new 34,500 sq m store sits on a 10 hectare site, in which IKEA have invested over 50 million...
