2022-07-02
FinTech Lithuania: €194.7 billion opportunities in EMI and PI
The amount of payment transactions of EMIs and PIs grew strongly in Q1 2022 and was double the level of a year ago. Revenues grew 3.5 times.
Tag: innovation
2022-05-07
Labor market in Estonia: it’s not all gold what glitters
Although growth in employment accelerated, and the restrictions did not deliver any major setback, the labor force participation rate fell.
2022-04-30
Stagflation is the price of superseding efficiency with political agenda
In Latvia, inflation projections for 2022 and 2023 have been revised upwards. The uptrend in prices is driven by several factors, mainly political.
2022-04-23
Energy pragmatism is possible, all it despises is rhetoric
Lithuania’s Independence, a so-called Floating Storage Regasification Unit, offers a case study for those looking to pivot away from Russian gas.
2022-04-09
Is the Green Dream postponed by Ukraine’s wake-up call?
As coal has the biggest potential to lower gas demand, Poland wants to use it to produce electricity after 2049 to bolster its energy security.
2022-03-05
Stimuli: productivity boost, or energy costs burning us out
Following a record GDP growth (8.5%) in 2021, the Estonian economy will slow in 2022, still maintaining a strong pace (+4%).
2022-02-05
Damage to competitiveness isn’t transitory, hope and rhetoric are
Riga is facing multiple challenges: energy prices, increasingly unemployed, a domestic market fall, global supply chain disruptions.
2022-01-29
e-Estonia: innovation can free us from the wage-price spiral
The example of Estonia suggests that the focus on an efficient allocation of resources works more effectively than a stimulus of demand.
2021-11-06
Lithuania: the road to the energy revolution is still long
Vilnius has achieved considerable results in energy supply from renewables, recycling and composting. However, emissions have increased by 50% since 2005.
2021-10-30
Estonia: now it’s time to reconvert the workforce
Many unemployed have a background in sectors affected by the pandemic: the skills of job seekers often do not correspond to the new needs.