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Expert briefing
Publication date: 22 March 2023

National efforts, EU-wide measures, warm weather and low Chinese demand helped them weather the impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but partly at the expense of progress on…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 16 December 2021

The three parties successfully negotiated a coalition agreement with a strong emphasis on modernising Germany’s economy. Throughout the negotiations, the parties presented a…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 9 September 2020

Overall, some 30% of the budget will involve climate-related spending. One of the key reforms concerns the EU’s own resources mechanism to finance spending, with plans to…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 23 May 2024

Driven in part by foreign exchange shortages and petroleum import costs, the measure also seeks to leverage Ethiopia’s own electricity resources to underpin a new ‘green…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 25 September 2020

Amid one of the steepest economic contractions in Europe, with GDP expected to shrink by 11% this year, the relaunch programme aims to reduce the tax burden on business and to…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 16 August 2021

The leaders of twelve EU member states in Central Europe pledged to develop transport and energy connections in the region. At a business forum running back-to-back with the…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 14 September 2022

The announcement of this new fund comes at a critical time for East Africa’s development. Regional governments are seeking to hasten recovery from recent economic setbacks and…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 3 January 2023

Monitoring detected an improvement in air quality, allowing the emergency measure against smog to be withdrawn. However, atmospheric pollution is a chronic problem in the Western…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 13 January 2022

Non-economic priorities such as nation-building and partisan political interests have often shaped large developmental projects in the Western Balkans, facilitated by…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 23 November 2022

Aimed to connect Skopje with Sofia and financed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the EU, the 89-kilometre line advances the completion of…

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