By announcing the Agrokor creditor agreement, the largest Croatian corporation enters a new phase of existence.
Poland doesn't differ very much from Western Europe in terms of state ownership of enterprises and the degree of regulatory interference. The country is more ”statist” than the United States and Great Britain, but less than...
In Lithuania, public holidays are an opportunity for many Lithuanians to take advantage of a day off and go shopping in Poland.
Agrokor is not only a business venture. It is, as many companies in the Central and Southeast Europe, also a political issue. To understand the business part we have to look at the political relations.
Is Agrokor too big to fail? The food producer and retailer has an income of 15 per cent of Croatia’s GDP but its insolvency means real trouble in the Balkans.
Every year people in Poland waste 9 million tons of food. The parliament is working on a legislation limiting the scale of waste, following other EU countries.
Poland has again led the way in the commercial real estate market in the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) region, taking up the largest chunk of incoming investment.
Poland should not treat digitization as something for the future or limit itself to supporting start-ups and technological clusters.
Good economists are seldom popular with the political class. This is not unique to democratic systems; dictators like good economists even less. Why? As a rule, politics doesn’t educate. It obfuscates, pontificates, and...
It seems to me that one reason why most economists and Wall Street strategists haven’t quite figured out that things are not getting better on Main Street is because they are theorists rather than empiricists. That is, they...