2021-09-11
The New Lithuanian Generation ignites a high-added-value future
New Generation Lithuania lays the foundations for high added value, digitalization, green course, better education, health and social services.
Category: Economic Policy
2021-09-04
How fiscal proactivity fired Lithuania back to pre-Covid world
Lithuania’s fiscal response to the crisis has been timely and adequate: GDP contracted by only 0.8%, while real growth has reached 4.8% this year.
2021-08-28
Latvian economic growth goes hand in hand with deficits and inflation
The Latvian central bank indicates an increase in GDP of 3.3% this year and 6.5% in 2022. Budget deficit and inflation forecasts are revised upwards.
2021-08-21
Energy turns on inflation alarm in Estonia
Energy prices are 22% higher and inflation will be maintained in the coming months by rising prices on the global market for raw materials and imported goods.
2021-08-14
Poland: decarbonization kicks +2% of GDP and +300K jobs
Third largest economy in the EU, with the emission of more than 800 gm of carbon dioxide per euro of GDP, where coal dominates the energy sector, with a 77% share in electricity production.
2021-08-07
Estonia: how technology took a 1.3 mln people country to the future
Already in 2012, Estonia’s 1.3 million residents could use electronic ID cards to vote, pay taxes and access more than 160 online services.
2021-07-31
Populism didn’t solve migration and fertility problems in Poland
The 500+ policy seems to have had the political effects desired by the government, rather than solving economic and demographic issues.
2021-07-24
Lithuania: a new migrant emergency at the door?
According to the government in Vilnius, Belarus is “arming” illegal immigration from Iraq and Syria to be sent across the border to Lithuania.
2021-07-17
Estonia is the only EU country that improved poverty risk
Estonian GDP decline has actually remained at 3%, thanks to innovative progress in the digitalization of services and milder restrictions.
2021-07-10
Poland: great opportunities from energy and automotive, inflation permitting
In the country, which became the fifth European economy with an average GDP of 4% in 2009-19, per capita income grew at a rate of 5.3%.