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Expert briefing
Publication date: 20 February 2023

Lower wholesale natural gas prices have improved balance-of-payments and fiscal positions and driven down inflation rates in Central Europe (CE). Financial markets are pricing in…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 17 February 2023

Russia’s war in neighbouring Ukraine has prompted EU member-states, and the Visegrad Four (V4: Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) in particular, to rethink their own…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 15 December 2016

Markets have taken badly the Fed's more hawkish policy guidance for 2017, not expecting such a shift in monetary policy so soon. The shift in US monetary policy comes just as the…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 7 April 2015

The level of drug use globally and its impacts.

Expert briefing
Publication date: 19 May 2016

This follows Myanmar's National League for Democracy (NLD)-dominated legislature endorsing a new defence cooperation agreement with Russia on May 10.

Expert briefing
Publication date: 5 July 2022

Budget constraints make it difficult for the Czech, Hungarian, Polish and Slovak authorities to help households and firms suffering as a result of the economic shocks caused by…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 1 July 2022

Although the MNB has struck a more hawkish tone and has raised rates more sharply than expected -- the latest increase is the largest since 2008 -- it has a track record of…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 23 September 2022

Flows resumed within days, but the sudden cut-off -- ascribed to overdue transit payments -- highlights Central Europe’s dependence on Russian oil imports and the difficulty of…

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