Larisa Manastirli, director for Bulgaria at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), spoke to Andrew Wrobel about the Bulgarian EU Presidency as well...
Tag - Western Balkans
Albania has received a 35.5 million euro grant from the European Union – via its Western Balkans Investment Fund (WBIF) – and a 35.9 million-euro loan from...
Azerbaijan’s Energy Minister Parviz Shahbazo has suggested that the Southern Gas Corridor – a pet project of the country’s president Ilham Aliyev – has the...
A new report by Erste Group Research suggests that despite increasing volume of trade, China remains a minor trading partner for central and eastern Europe (CEE)...
There are many motives for China to engage with central and eastern Europe (CEE), not least developing a link between the Port of Piraeus in Greece (which Beijing has...
Growth in the Western Balkans – Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia – declined in 2017, despite the creation of 190,000 new jobs in the...
Seen from Vienna, the strong economic upswing currently evident across much of CEE is particularly welcome. Austria is a small, open economy in the middle of Europe, and...
Employment figures in the Western Balkans were boosted last year by the creation of 231,000 new jobs across the six countries of the region: Serbia, Montenegro...
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...
“Without a doubt there are still politically difficult issues and we shouldn’t hide from investors. We should be frank, open and honest about trying to resolve them, and...
Kosovo, which celebrated the 10th anniversary of its independence from Serbia on February 17, is still trying to find its way going forward.