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...

The day when golden Majlinda brought tears to her fellow citizens

Sep 12, 2019 | Culture, People

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...