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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.
Latvian watchdog warns to cut budget expenses
Jan DaraszThe Latvian Fiscal Discipline Council pushed the government to decrease the budget deficit in 2019. In the first draft the deficit was 0.7 per cent of GDP, in the final version 0.3 per cent of GDP.
Increase in the number of countries supplying oil to Poland
Wojciech MroczekIn order to diversify its sources of crude oil supply, Poland is importing less oil from Russia and more from other countries, such as Kazakhstan, Nigeria and the United Arab Emirates.
Blockchain could transform international trade
Mirosław CiesielskiThe distributed ledger technology (DLT) has the potential to change international trade through the digitalization of complex document flows and the provision of access to financing for small and medium-sized enterprises...
Electric vehicles are catching up with gas-powered cars
Obserwator FinansowyIn 2018, the number of electric vehicles surpassed 4 million worldwide. This is still only a fraction of all the vehicles on the roads, but the rate of changes in the automotive market indicates that soon cars with internal...
The strikes in Hungary that did not take place
Dominik HéjjThe protests against the so-called “slave law” have died down, losing their unprecedented momentum and enthusiasm. The trade unions threatened the authorities with a general strike that would bring Hungary to a...
Central and Southeast Europe still attractive for investors
Filip BrokešDespite the increasingly unstable political environment, the CSE witnessed an upsurge in overall deal value of 12.5 per cent year on year reaching a total value of the EUR80.5bn in 2018, according to the latest report on...
Serbia’s komercijalna banka finished 2018 with the best results
Vedran ObućinaIn 2018, the Komercijalna banka (Commercial Bank) in Serbia achieved the best results in the past ten years, as it expects a profit of about RSD8.3 bn (over EUR70m). The bank has reversed the trend of declining market share.
The brief history of emerging economies
Paweł KowalewskiIt is difficult to provide an assessment of the changes taking place in emerging economies. Their share in the global economy has increased and their markets have become more heterogeneous, but many structural reforms have...
An economic slowdown is coming
Witold GadomskiExperts from the European Commission (EC) judge that the economy of the European Union (EU) reached the peak of the business cycle in 2017. In the two subsequent years there will be a slowdown, but not a recession.
Czech media firmly in domestic hands
Filip BrokešOn January, the Czech online daily idnes.cz informed that the news platform Info.cz merged with the news aggregator Zdroj.cz. This merger is one of the latest manifestations of series of M&As on the Czech media market.