Europe’s automotive industry has experienced a severe downturn since the onset of the COVID-19 epidemic. From a short-term perspective, the key to recovery in Germany and CEE will be the pickup in sales in the largest markets,...
Poland could gain more than USD8bn per year thanks to the relocation of some of the production operations from China to other countries, according to a report Trade routes after the COVID-19 pandemic” by the Polish Economic...
There are many reasons why Central and Southeast Europe (CSE) is not attractive to foreign investors, most notably high levels of corruption, legal restrictions that prevent or restrict Venture Capital (VC) investment, unsettled...
The rate of economic growth in Poland and the Visegrad Group countries (Czech Republic, Hungaary, Slovakia and Poland; V4) has not reflected the markedly weaker economic situation in Germany and the Eurozone countries over the...
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...
The debate on the next EU budget becomes heated. The northern countries want to limit the cohesion funds, while Central and Southeast countries insist on the same level as previously. Germany, the EU’s biggest contributor, is...
In the first three quarters of 2019, Hungary, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Poland, Romania and Slovakia recorded a real estate investment volume of EUR9bn, according to a report from Colliers, with office sector being the most...
A record-breaking leveraged buy-out in Poland highlights both the growing appetite of global private equity firms for Central European assets and the increasingly favorable financing conditions in the region.
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.
The CEE mergers and acquisitions market was worth EUR14.5bn in the H1’15, of which Poland accounted for EUR3.4bn.