Baltic States
EU Launches WTO case against China over Lithuania blockade
China started blocking Lithuanian products and some European goods that contained Lithuanian components at customs last month.
wiiw slashes Emerging Europe growth forecasts for 2022 and 2023
Turkish growth is expected to slow to 3.5% this year, from a forecast 9.5% in 2021, while for Russia, GDP growth is forecast to slow to 2% from 4.5%.
NEMETHY: Is monetary tightening the cure for inflation?
The US Fed has not increased interest rates, just talked of increasing rates – not even by that much — and global stock exchanges lost $4.2 trillion in week. How can the Fed kill off the current high inflation without crashing the economy?
Lithuania looks for quality, not quantity in fintech
The central bank is implementing tighter standards following Lithuanian fintech UAB Finolita Unio's involvement in the Wirecard scandal.
Baltics to send weapons to Ukraine as fears of Russian invasion rise
Estonia will send Javelin anti-armour missiles, while Latvia and Lithuania will send Stinger antiaircraft missiles.
US charges four Belarusian state officials with conspiracy to commit aircraft piracy
Yesterday, a federal grand jury in New York returned an indictment which charged four Belarusian state officials with conspiracy to commit aircraft piracy.
Baltics boost own military capacities and pledge to send arms to Ukraine as tension mounts
Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia have pledged to offer Ukraine assistance, including in cyber security.
OUTLOOK 2022: Central Europe and the Baltic states
Central Europe faces a critical year, with a key election in Hungary in April, while rumbling political instability in Poland and Slovakia could lead to early elections.
Lithuania terminates transport contract with Belarus potassium giant Belaruskali
Lithuania insists it did not break sanctions by allowing Belaruskali exports but the affair was extremely embarrassing because it has been one of the most strident voices calling for sanctions on Minsk.
Estonia's Bolt raises €628mn to boost growth
Funding round gives on-demand transport and delivery start-up a valuation of €7.4bn.
Lithuania pays Guantanamo ‘forever prisoner’ $113,000 over CIA torture
Abu Zubaydah is reportedly still in Guantanamo Bay, where he has been held without being charged for the past two decades.
bneGREEN: Brussels labels both gas and nuclear as green
Commission says there is a role for natural gas and nuclear as a means to facilitate the transition towards a predominantly renewable-based future.
Estonian government under fire for booming trade with Belarus
Government says that companies brokering or transiting goods from Belarus to the foreign market through Estonia do not violate sanctions imposed on Lukashenko's regime.
DEATH OF THE SOVIET UNION: BOOK REVIEW – Reassessing the causes of the Soviet demise
Vladislav Zubok’s book Collapse: the fall of the Soviet Union examines the causes of the breakup of the Soviet Union and challenges the view that the collapse was inevitable.
CEE banking: As good as it gets in (post-) crisis times and the challenging geopolitical environment
Western European banks have made double-digit increases in the growth of their credit exposures to the CE/SEE region in the past 12-18 months.
Lithuanian premier rejects ministers' resignations over Belarus sanctions-busting scandal
Head of state-owned railways will instead step down over contract that allows Belaruskali potash to continue being carried to Port of Klapeida.
Lithuania humiliated by Belarus sanction-breaking scandal
Foreign and transport ministers offer to resign after revelation that state-owned railways has continued to transport potash exports of sanctioned regime.
DEATH OF THE SOVIET UNION: Widespread nostalgia but no going back
Many older citizens across the former Soviet Union look back nostalgically to the ‘golden age’ before the transition but few genuinely want a return to socialism.
Biden pledges no backstage talks with Russia about Nato’s eastern flank
US president reassures Bucharest Nine of commitment after talks with President Putin stoke fears.
Latvia issues eight-year sustainability bonds worth €600mn
Issue is Baltic states' first sustainability bond.
