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Obserwator Finansowy features views and analysis of economy in Poland and other countries, written by some of the best journalists, economists and analysts. Our mission is to share knowledge of economics and financial markets in the world.
Obserwator Finansowy is a project under aegis of the Poland’s central bank, Narodowy Bank Polski. We have published thousands of articles about the Polish and global economy. Our journalists have conducted hundreds of interviews with Nobel laureates, distinguished economists, business leaders and politicians with views across the political spectrum.
In this section you can find selected articles in English.
Hungary is unexpectedly back on investors’ agenda
Marcin GrelaThe rating agency Standard & Poor’s raised its rating of Hungarian Treasury bonds back to an investment grade. Fitch has already taken similar decision in May 2016. For the last four years, the rating agencies have...
Belgian KBC interested in buying Bulgaria’s fourth-largest bank by assets
Jo HarperKBC has expressed interest in acquiring United Bulgarian Bank (UBB), Belgian media reported. KBC has contracted JP Morgan to help it with the procedure, according to the online edition of newspaper L'Echo.
European Commission to issue decision on Hungarian nuclear reactors at Paks
Jo HarperThe European Commission is expected to issue a decision "within weeks" on Hungary's plan to build two additional reactors at nuclear plant Paks, Attila Aszódi, the government commissioner responsible for Paks II, said.
The limitations of Warsaw airport are forcing quick decisions
Artur BurakAfter more than a dozen years of analyses and discussions concerning a new central airport, Poles are now forced to admit that there may be too little time to build a new airport from scratch before Chopin Airport reaches...
Central banks in times of uncertainty
Marek PielachIs monetary policy, even extremely unconventional, still capable of fixing anything in the economy?
Belarus and Poland plan to increase joint projects in transport industry
Jo HarperBelarus and Poland should step up efforts to prepare joint projects in the transport industry, said Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus Anatoly Kalinin.
Polish M&A transactions lead the region
Jo HarperNaspers sold its 100 per cent interest in the Poland-based Allegro Group for EUR3bn to Cinven, Permira and Mid Europa Partners – including online marketplace and price comparison businesses Allegro.pl and Ceneo.pl.
Heightened activity on Lithuania’s LNG sector
Jo HarperLithuania's state-owned gas trader Lietuvos Duju Tiekimas (LDT) has signed a liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply deal for 2017 with Koch Supply & Trading, a trading arm for Koch Industries.
Bosnia and Herzegovina – ethnic economy and political impotency
Jan MuśUnderstanding Bosnia and Herzegovina requires truly open mind to fully apprehended the level of 'ethnicization'. One of the ways to break a deadlock is to limit international donations responsible for 40 per cent of the...
Croatia’s governing coalition to push ahead with tax system reform
Jo HarperCroatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said in October there was no alternative to tax reform, but warned it was in the balance, Novi List wrote.