The concept of civil society is a product imported into Latvia in the 1990s. It was rooted into the idea that democracy could be stabilised by promoting people’s self...
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Private equity investment in CEE reached 3.5 billion euros in 2017, a 113 per cent year-on-year increase and a record high level for the region, new data from Invest...
The Council of Europe’s Committee of Experts on the Evaluation of Anti-Money Laundering Measures and the Financing of Terrorism, known as Moneyval, states in a new...
In a new evaluation report the Council of Europe’s Group of States against corruption (GRECO) has called on Latvia to reinvigorate integrity in top executive functions...
PKN Orlen (Orlen), a major Polish oil refiner and petrol retailer, and Lithuania have had a love-hate relationship for almost a decade. While Orlen has invested heavily...
Seasonally adjusted GDP rose by 0.4 per cent in both the euro area (EA19) and the EU28 during the second quarter of 2018, compared with the previous quarter, according...
The Lithuanian Competition Council has approved the acquisition of Nelja Energia, an operator of wind farms in Estonia and Lithuania, by Enefit Green, the renewable...
The European Investment Fund (EIF) has signed a microfinance guarantee agreement with ALTUM, Latvia’s state-owned development institution. The agreement, which...
Where is our Macron? As a Frenchman working with political parties across Europe, this is a question that often comes back from my interlocutors. Urban liberals from...
Advanced economies remain the global leaders in trade logistics, finds Connecting to Compete, a new World Bank Group report. Across the board, most countries have...
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...
Romania now boasts the fifth fastest internet in the world, and easily the fastest in Emerging Europe. In an analysis of more than 160 million broadband speed tests...
Labour costs in Romania saw the biggest increase of any EU country during the first quarter of 2018, according to new figures released by Eurostat. Annual increases in...
