Filip Brokeš jest analitykiem i dziennikarzem specjalizującym się w międzynarodowej polityce oraz gospodarce, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem Rosji oraz krajów WNP.
Filip Brokeš is an analyst and a journalist specializing in international relations.
As the EU member states imposed restrictions to protect their citizens from the COVID-19 virus, many businesses across the continent took a strong economic hit. To help with their struggle, EU temporarily loosened...
The Czech government approved the Finance Ministry’s proposal to increase the state deficit to CZK300bn (EUR10.9bn), up from the previously estimated CZK100bn (EUR3.6bn). This is already the worst budgetary performance...
The Central Bank of the Russian Federation sold its 50 per cent+1 share in Sberbank, Russia’s largest financial institution, to the Russian Finance Ministry. Although officially carried out to avoid conflict of interest,...
All airlines are reporting slashing revenues as global air traffic comes nearly to a halt due to the pandemic. Now as many governments are beginning to slowly roll back the lockdown measures, airliners are preparing...
The falling oil prices combined with the extra-budgetary spending requirements needed to support ailing businesses means that Russia’s National Welfare Fund will most likely be empty much earlier than previously thought....
Countries in Central and Southeast Europe (CSE) show larger share of value added by foreign-controlled enterprises to their economies than their peers in western and southern Europe. They also have a higher share of foreign...
As EU leaders struggle to agree on a post-pandemic reconstruction strategy, the European Commission plans to make the EU’s next 7-year budget a part of the recovery plan. However, it seems increasingly unlikely that a...
Second online meeting of Eurozone’s finance ministers ended in a stalemate. Although a plan for a COVID-19-related rescue package has already been proposed, a lack of unity among member states has prevented its...
In early January, the Russian government unveiled its plan to adapt the country’s economy and society to climate change. Although the rising global temperature is recognized as a threat, Moscow doesn’t shy away from...
At the end of December last year, the Czech Ministry of Finance drafted a new policy regarding state-owned assets. It outlined which companies should remain in state hands and which should be privatized. The sellout of those...