Emerging Europe’s best early-stage, scale-up and growth companies have until May 18 the opportunity to apply for the first CEE-Released programme, launched on...
Tag - Latvia
Reports that big increases in wages are threatening jobs in emerging Europe have been greatly exaggerated. In fact, the region needs a pay rise.
The Czech capital Prague offers the highest quality of life of any city in Emerging Europe. The city is ranked 69th (of 231 cities worldwide) in a new survey published...
Romania has the European Union’s highest percentage of workers at risk of in-work poverty, according to new figures published by the European Union’s statistics unit...
Growth throughout emerging Europe is the best it has been for six years according to a new forecast published by the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies...
The Czech Republic and Slovakia are the biggest government healthcare spenders amongst those emerging European countries which are members of the EU. Both nations...
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has recommended Latvia raise its minimum pension in order to reduce poverty amongst the elderly. The...
Low-income regions in Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, and Romania, where GDP per capita is under 50 per cent of the EU average, represent one of the major widening divides...
Estonia – by quite some distance – is viewed as being the least corrupt country in emerging Europe, according to the latest Corruption Perceptions Index, published...
Latvia has been scrambling to defend the integrity of its banking system in the wake of the arrest of Ilmars Rimsevics, governor of the Latvian National Bank and a board...
Central and Eastern Europe does not have a single, full democracy according to the 2017 Democracy Index released early in February by the Economist Intelligence Unit...
The World Bank has released its third volume of beyond GDP wealth accounting, called The Changing Wealth of Nations 2018. The report had its genesis at the Rio Earth...
Slow progress in raising living standards, and widening inequality have contributed to political polarisation and erosion of social cohesion in many advanced and...
