Search results

Doubts rise over future EU funding for Central Europe

Location:

CENTRAL EUROPE

The outlook for continued EU structural fund inflows.

EU’s Visegrad Four will not continue in current format

Location:

EU

Poland may have resolved its rule-of-law dispute with the EU, whereas part of Hungary’s ‘cohesion’ funds are frozen. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has driven a wedge between Poland…

Prospects for eastern EU in 2021

Location:

PROSPECTS 2021

Governments have been able to address public demands for economic growth, physical and social security, and to generate ideological support from social-conservative…

South African budget plans may prove too ambitious

Location:

SOUTH AFRICA

However, the MTBPS relies even more heavily on getting powerful public-sector unions to agree to unprecedented wage freezes over the next three years, putting its credibility in…

US Democratic trifecta would see wide policy changes

Location:

UNITED STATES

If this result comes to pass (a ‘trifecta’) it would dramatically increase Biden's latitude to govern in his first two years in office.

Poland's economic outlook will be uncertain under PiS

Location:

POLAND

Amid an ongoing constitutional crisis, the Law and Justice (PiS) government, which was sworn into office on November 16, has been busy revising fiscal targets and agreeing draft…

Zambia debt crisis faces imminent tipping point

Location:

ZAMBIA

President Edgar Lungu and his Patriotic Front (PF) government are increasingly struggling to mobilise resources to meet repayments amid continued high public spending. Meanwhile…

Spain’s Socialists will struggle to revive stability

Location:

SPAIN

Spain outlook.

Catalonia is the main risk for Spain’s new government

Location:

SPAIN

Sanchez will now have to do something which he desperately sought to avoid: rely on Catalan support to survive in government.

New Turkish Cypriot leader is chance for settlement

Location:

CYPRUS/TURKEY

Reunion of the island is now an option, for the first time since the Turkish invasion of 1974. There is strong international support, but designing a deal acceptable to both…