I am confident that for the next 5 to 10 years Poland will continue to grow if the world economy is growing without a major global recession or depression, says Peter Jarrett, PhD, Head of the OECD Central and Eastern Europe Unit.
A year after announcing its plan, the European Commission has promised to accelerate the implementation of the capital markets union project. It is more and more clear that it has no alternative and Brexit may only foster this process.
The principles of the single market of the European Union include the free movement of goods, capital and people. But the biggest challenges are faced in the case of the freedom of cross-border provision of services.
Europe needs productivity growth, said Hans Peter Lankes, Managing Director for corporate strategy at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
Almost everybody was wrong about the chances of Donald Trump winning the presidential elections, in particular the so-called big-data prognosticators.
Czech Finance Minister Andrej Babiš does not favor swapping the crown for the euro yet, telling the daily Hospodarske Noviny: "I am convinced the question of adoption is not whether we will accept it but how to do it well."
Probably the most frequent question the EU pundits and journalists have asked recently is whether the EU will disintegrate. The answer is simple: It will not.
The International Monetary Fund still believes that emerging markets will return to the economic prosperity which characterized them in the first decade of this century.
The Czech Republic sees Russia as one of its key trade and economic partners and would like to curb current negative trade dynamics, Czech Minister of Industry and Trade Jan Mladek told the Russian news agency TASS.
Over the years, the Visegrad Group was more of a geographical rather than a political concept. Currently there is a political rapprochement between the countries of the group.