At the end of 2018, the value of foreign direct investments (FDI) carried out by Polish companies amounted to USD28.5bn. Poland ranked third among the countries of Central and Southeast Europe (CSE). Companies from the Czech...
As Covid-19 spreads, causing more countries to take counter-measures, Central and Southeast Europe is no exception. ING’s latest report said that collectively it is downgrading the 2020 GDP outlook on the back of virus fears.
The US government has threatened the Czech Republic with tariffs on the country’s goods if its parliament adopts a 7 per cent digital tax. According to Foreign Minister Tomas Petricek, the Czech Republic could face...
The debate on the next EU budget becomes heated. The northern countries want to limit the cohesion funds, while Central and Southeast countries insist on the same level as previously. Germany, the EU’s biggest contributor, is...
In the first three quarters of 2019, Hungary, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Poland, Romania and Slovakia recorded a real estate investment volume of EUR9bn, according to a report from Colliers, with office sector being the most...
The revenues of the apricot market in Central and Southeast Europe (CSE) amounted to USD318m in 2018, down 5.8 per cent against the previous year, according to IndexBox’s report: “Eastern Europe – Apricots – Market...
A record-breaking leveraged buy-out in Poland highlights both the growing appetite of global private equity firms for Central European assets and the increasingly favorable financing conditions in the region.
The Czech Finance Ministry posted a state budget surplus of 75.6 billion crowns ($2.42 billion)at the end of July, is 50 billion crowns higher than registered in the same period of 2015 and the best result since the founding of...
Czech energy company ČEZ has submitted a non-binding offer to buy Swedish Vattenfall’s German brown coal and hydroelectric activities.
CE Financial Observer talks to Marek Belka, Governor of the Polish central bank NBP, about the future of the Polish economy, the role of the central bank and the situation in Central Europe.