Baltic States
EBRD: Pace of emerging Europe economic growth slows as global outlook weakens
The pace of growth in the EBRD’s emerging economies is slowing on the back of a weaker global economic outlook, and pressure from slower growth in the Eurozone and China, US/Chinese trade tensions and a contraction in world automobile production, acc
Estonian retail sales maintain growth tempo in September
Consumption is expected to be an important driver of Estonia’s economic growth in 2019, as it was last year.
Slowdown on the cards for Central Europe as economic sentiment plunges
The European Commission’s Economic Sentiment Indicators (ESIs) turned south across Central Europe in October, suggesting the economies of the region will slow down from here as a miasma descends.
Belarus deploys troops in Lithuanian direction amid NATO maneuvers
Belarus has "reinforced the nation's border” and "stationed more ground troops in the Lithuanian direction” in reaction to NATO exercises and the deployment of a contingent of US armed forces in neighbouring country near the border with Belarus, the
ALACO DISPATCHES: Latvia seeks to rebuild tarnished banking reputation
International scrutiny and intervention have prompted the Latvian authorities to clean up the scandal-plagued financial sector, but the jury is still out on whether they have managed to do enough thus far.
30 years after fall of Berlin Wall Pew poll finds progress but a values fault line lies across Europe
With the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall due in November the Pew Research Center has released a report looking at how attitudes to democracy, liberal values and market economies have developed in the last 30 years.
Czech companies dominate Deloitte CE Tech Fast 50 — but new destinations emerge
Ranking of fastest growing CEE tech companies led by Lithuania’s Voltas IT includes 31 new entrants reflecting hyper rapid pace of tech sector development in the region.
Lithuania considers banning purchases of electricity from Belarus’ nuclear power plant
President Gitanas Nauseda says he wants to prevent countries with “unsafe nuclear power plants” from exporting electricity to Lithuania, but fellow Baltic states Estonia and Latvia appear not to share his concerns.