Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk is considering entering the path of a trade war with Russia, as it opposes the trade part of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement which was initially supposed to become effective a year ago.
Bulgaria can be a door opener for Turkey’s EU accession, said Bulgarian PM Boyko Borissov during the visit of Ahmet Davutoglu, his Turkish counterpart, in Sofia.
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.
Russia marked the first anniversary of the introduction of economic sanctions by destroying tons of foreign food. Will soon grocery stores shelves be empty?
Economically undermined and deprived of allies, Russia is trying to be a "big shot" in Syria and to maintain an important position on the world’s political map. Sebastian Stodolak talks to Eugene Rumer from the American...
“Despite the problems, one cannot talk of Gazprom's bankruptcy,” believes Konstantin Simonov, a Russian energy expert. Jakub Biernat talks to him on the future of the largest Russian company.
According to official statistics, number of Russian poor people has reached 22 million. The percentage of Russians living below the poverty line is 15.9 per cent in Q1’2015.
Russian banks, subject to sanctions in the West, have found a safe haven in Ukraine, a country at war with Russia.
The economic sanctions are only a tertiary cause of Russia's trouble with economic growth. The recession is in full swing, but Vladimir Putin will not reform the economy – argues Sergei Guriev, former President of Moscow's...
The decline in oil price and economic sanctions deepened the slowdown in Russia’s GDP lasting from 2011. Due to the lack of internal and external growth drivers, this time Russia is unlikely to return to a high-growth path over...