- Economical (mis)opportunities and financial (in)dependence for teens in Europe
This elusive “independence” striven for by teenagers, or rather mere kids transitioning from childhood is naturally punctuated by the will to have some sort of financial independence.
- Georgia returns to the old new Silk Road
Georgia has historically been at the edge of empires.
- Opting for the markets 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall
The fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, was not only the beginning of the reunification of German as the people of Berlin brought down a monstrous physical barrier that cut through their city since 1961, it was also one of several events that in the months and years to come would have more than 100 million people turn their back to communism, also because of their fortitude to steer their economies out of socialism toward the market.
- A new kind of Lithuanian president?
If the first six weeks of his term are a fair indicator of his future actions, then Lithuania’s new president Gitanas Nausėda will steer a course different from his predecessor Dalia Grybauskaitė.
- Europe should re-evaluate extradition to China
The recent protests in Hong Kong against the proposed extradition bill have once again put a spotlight on China and its attempts to crackdown on dissidents not just in the mainland but also in Hong Kong, a Special Administrative Region who’s status is framed by a legally binding Sino-British Joint Declaration signed in 1984, ratified on May 27, 1985 and registered by the Chinese and British governments at the United Nations on June 12, 1985.
- The rise of illiberal Estonia? Not yet…
People following the latest news in Estonia have been pretty astonished by recent political developments in the country.
- European authorities will wind down Latvia’s ABLV Bank AS
European authorities will close ABLV Bank AS, the Latvian lender facing U.S. accusations of money laundering tied to North Korea.
- ABLV Bank CEO: We are ready to renew payments
ABLV Bank is ready to have restrictions on payments lifted, the bank's CEO Ernests Bernis told a press conference on February 23.
- Upheavals in the Latvian banking sector
There’s been a huge commotion within Latvia’s banking industry during the last week or so.
- Lithuania’s defence budget: expanded and expanding
This year Lithuania will allocate 873 million euros for defence.
- Independent Estonia 100: The story of the ‘Baltic Tiger’ that wasn’t supposed to be
On February 24 Estonia celebrates the centenary of its independence.
- Local elections in Estonia spelt the end of Savisaar’s era
Local municipality elections are usually considered as second rank elections and usually analysts don’t pay much attention to them.
- Lithuania and Poland: together apart
My advice for Lithuania regarding Poland: keep close NATO partnership ties with Poland and, at the same time, go into the EU core without any doubts, regardless to Poland as well as Sweden and other non-Eurozone countries.
- Where to get more money for health care?
Latvia’s government is currently going through conniption fits in relation to filling the coffers of state with more money so as to address growing needs for new spending.
- Lithuania’s government – hardly a success story
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis does not mince his words.
- Estonia to invest heavily in information, communication technology in 2017
The Estonian government has approved the implementation plan of the Estonian Information Society Development Plan 2020, according to which 50.4 million Euros will be allocated to the development of the field of information and communication technology in 2017.
- Estonian president takes time to think about sweetened beverages tax
The law introducing a tax on sweetened beverages in Estonia was not among the 27 laws that President Kersti Kaljulaid promulgated on Thursday, June 22, with the spokespeople for the president saying that the head of state has not taken her stand yet.
- Saeima supports proposal to make salaries of central, local government employees public
Saeima in the third and final reading today adopted legislative amendments that support the proposal of MP Ints Dalderis (Unity) to publish salary data of all central and local government employees on the Internet.
- Lithuanian prosecutors want Russian spying suspect in prison
A Vilnius court has completed hearing the spying case of high-ranking Russian intelligence officer Nikolai Filipchenko whom prosecutors want found guilty and sent to prison for 10 years and six months.
- Spending by foreigners in Lithuania grows 4 per cent
Foreign tourists and other visitors from abroad spent a total of 1.095 billion Euros in Lithuania last year, up by 4 per cent, from 1.053 billion Euros spent in 2015, data from Statistics Lithuania showed.