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...
By Zrinka Zivkovic Matijevic, Raiffeisen Bank in Croatia and Gunter Deuber, RBI Currently, all signs point to an enlargement of the euro area at the turn of the year. Croatia is presently on the shortest path to the euro area – an interesting development after...
By Dorota Strauch, Casper Engelen and Gunter Deuber, RBI | With the end of the year in sight, let’s take a closer look at how the CEE economy will develop in the coming year. To some extent, some of key issues and uncertainties in CEE are the same as...