A number of countries in emerging Europe have made giant strides in the fight against gender inequality this year, while other Central and Eastern European states...
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Thanks to the political stability, a favourable geographical location, rich resources of fossil fuels and investment opportunities, Azerbaijan has historically been at...
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has named Estonia and the Czech Republic as the most competitive economies in emerging Europe. According to WEF’s latest Global...
It was New Zealand which first granted women suffrage in 1893, and the origins of women’s rights are often associated with western countries (or those, like New Zealand...
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, has announced a long-term local currency loan of 100 million Georgian lari (around 35...
The government of Belarus has announced plans to double net foreign direct investment by 2025. According to a draft of Belarus’s 2035 strategy for FDI, the country aims...
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has called for an overhaul of Europe’s tax system. “There are tax havens in Europe which abuse their taxation systems to...
The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) latest Global Competitiveness Report shows that much of emerging Europe continues to lag behind the rest of the continent. “The greatest...
Developing much faster than many other regions around the world, CEE is a significant growth engine not only for the European economy but also for GE. A long- standing...
The need to strengthen and improve regional economic cooperation within the Western Balkans has been set as a priority both by the European Union and the Western Balkans...
While the declaration issued at the close of the Western Balkans Summit held in Sofia on May 17 fell short of promising EU entry to any of the six Western Balkans states...
In 2016 the gross hourly earnings of women across the European Union were on average 16.2 per cent below those of men. The figures were released by Eurostat, the...
Slow progress in raising living standards, and widening inequality have contributed to political polarisation and erosion of social cohesion in many advanced and...