How to lead a media empire in Kosovo

Sep 26, 2019 | People, Trends

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...

Our family’s contribution to mum’s hometown

Sep 25, 2019 | Business, People

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....

Investing in Kosovo

Sep 24, 2019 | Economics, Trends

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...

Kosovo: Solid growth despite a ‘trade war’ unwelcome in Brussels

Sep 19, 2019 | Economics, Trends

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...

Take a walk through Prishtina

Sep 17, 2019 | Culture

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...