By Evliana Berani, Raiffeisen Bank Kosovo | Aferdita Saraçini Kelmendi leads one of the biggest businesses in Kosovo: a well-known national radio and television, RTV 21. Building and running one of the biggest television stations in Kosovo, in an extremely competitive media environment, is obviously quite a difficult and challenging task. Changing the mindset and […]
By Evliana Berani, Raiffeisen Bank Kosovo| Until several years ago, Florie Bajraktari Vanhove was one of 700,000 Kosovans living abroad. Today, she is a successful business woman, running a unique restaurant in the downtown of Prishtina. Kosovo’s diaspora is huge. Difficult times forced many Kosovans to live from money sent to them by relatives living […]
By Patricia Lang-Schönberger | Discover CEE spoke to Wilhelm-Peter Hasslacher from the Austrian Economic Chambers (WKO), who works as business delegate for the Foreign Trade Centre Laibach in Slovenia. He is an expert on Southeastern Europe: his assignments as business delegate have taken him to Zagreb and Sarajevo, and he is now in Ljubljana, where […]
By Valbona Gjeka, Raiffeisen Bank Albania, and Gunter Deuber, RBI Vienna | The economy of Kosovo has shown solid and stable real GDP growth of about 4.1 percent year-on-year on average from 2015-2018, being one of the economies with the highest growth level in the region of Southeastern Europe. However, even an average growth of […]
By Evliana Berani, Raiffeisen Bank Kosovo | Mixed identity or no identity at all? This overarching question is raised whenever visitors talk about Prishtina, Kosovo’s capital. And the longer the debate lasts, the stronger one conclusion prevails: Regardless of the fact that the city lacks beautiful, old or fancy buildings, Prishtina has a strong mixed […]
By Evliana Berani, Raiffeisen Bank Kosovo | When Majlinda Kelmendi sank to her knees in tears at the Olympics, it was more than the typical gold medalist’s release of tension. It was also a defining moment for Kosovo’s 1.8 million people. This is how the BBC started the story from the Olympic Games in Rio […]
By Edita Pozhegu, representative of ATOMI | The ATOMI organization in Kosovo has been established ten years ago as an initiative of a group of professionals and is one of its kind in the Balkans region. It focuses on the identification and support of gifted students with extraordinary intelligence in Kosovo. ATOMI aims to identify […]
In September, the Discover CEE spotlight is on Kosovo! Watch out for several blog posts on Kosovo’s business, culture and success stories. Today, we have the most interesting economic data and cultural facts about Kosovo at a glance for you. The fact sheet is also downloadable in print version. Click here to print the fact […]
By Gunter Deuber, RBI | Kosovo and its banking sector are often overlooked by international observers and investors. This is all the more astonishing given that the performance of the real economy and the banking sector in recent years has been remarkable. And both have to do with each other. In contrast to many other […]
Enjoy watching a short summary of this year’s CEE Banking Sector Report by Gunter Deuber.
by Bastian Kellhofer, Trending Topics | „After my first job in Pristina, I immediately noticed that Kosovo has a hidden talent and a lot of potential to become a leading country for software development in the CEE region. There are many young and ambitious people, able and ready to make a disruptive change. All they […]
By Gunter Deuber, RBI | The topic of a prospective further EU enlargement to the Western Balkans or South-eastern Europe (SEE) has received increasing attention in recent months. The EU Commission clearly demonstrated its ambition to revive the enlargement discourse, indicated by its efforts to work out a “credible enlargement perspective for an enhanced EU […]