By Zrinka Zivkovic-Matijevic, Raiffeisen Bank in Croatia | Slovenia, a small, open and export-oriented economy will report a broad-based and still robust economic growth in 2022. This Central European country with a population of just over two million was the...
By Dorota Strauch, RBI Branch Poland | The war in Ukraine, sanctions between the West and Russia amid unfolding energy challenges all have significant impact on economic developments and the outlook for the CE/SEE region. Our forecasts have been cautious from the...
By Fjorent Rrushi, Raiffeisen Bank in Albania, Ivona Zametica, Raiffeisen Bank in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Oleksandr Pecherytsyn, Raiffeisen Bank in Ukraine and Gunter Deuber, RBI | The EU enlargement process has stalled considerably. This can be clearly deduced from...
By Zrinka Zivkovic-Matijevic, Raiffeisen Bank in Croatia, Emil Kalchev, Raiffeisenbank Bulgaria and Gunter Deuber, RBI | The latest Convergence Report has confirmed our expectation that (only) Croatia met the necessary preconditions to adopt the euro on 1 January...
Dorota Strauch, RBI Branch Poland and Casper Engelen, RBI | With inflation still trending upwards and ongoing price pressures stemming from the war in Ukraine, central banks in the CEE region are facing a tricky balancing act. On the one hand, the inflation beast...
By Gunter Deuber, RBI, Dorota Strauch, RBI Branch Poland and Casper Engelen, RBI | The war in Ukraine, the sanctions and countersanctions it has spurred, price pressures not seen in decades and supply chain disruptions re-emerging have urged Raiffeisen Research to...
