Since 2014, the share of adults employed in brain business jobs in Bulgaria has increased by 50%. As comparison, the rate of growth has been 42% in Poland, 28% in Germany and 9% in France. The index by ECEPR, with support from Nordic Capital, measures the share of the working-age population across Europe employed in…
An extension of the mortgage moratorium will be one of the Law and Justice’s (PiS) first initiatives in the Sejm, the lower house, after the elections, Mateusz Morawiecki, the Polish prime minister, has said. Poland goes to the polls on October 15, and just who will win remains unclear. The Polish government brought in the…
A meeting of the Ukrainian part of the Mixed Ukrainian-Moldovan Intergovernmental Commission for Trade and Economic Cooperation has been held, chaired by Iryna Vereshchuk, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine. The Ukrainian side gathered to discuss the main promising areas of cooperation in the context of preparations…
Iryna Vereshchuk, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine, called on businesses to invest in the restoration and development of Kharkiv region. She made this statement during the Kharkiv Restart investment forum held in Kyiv on September 19. The Forum discussed attracting investments in the restoration and development…
Economic freedom in Bulgaria continues to decrease according to the “Economic Freedom of the World 2023” study published by the Institute for Market Economics (IME) in collaboration with the Canadian Fraser Institute, ranking the country 43rd among 165 countries and territories. According to economist Zornitsa Slavova from the IME, the ban on the import of…
Poland’s industrial output fell by 2% YoY in August, the Central Statistical Office (GUS) reported on September 20. Month on month, industrial output increased by 1%. Economists polled by PAP expected August’s industrial production to fall by 1.7% YoY and to increase by 1.7% MoM. Manufacturing prices fell by 2.8% YoY in August and grew…
Estonian President Alar Karis and his Baltic counterparts met with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in New York, where their discussion focused on issues related to Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine. Speaking at a strategic investment summit, the three heads of state also called on American entrepreneurs to invest in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. At their…