#Moldova police investigating TV stations tied to fugitive oligarch Ilan Shor for tax evasion & money laundering. Suspect funds bankrolled pro-Russian propaganda ahead of Sept 28 election. Md stepping up pushback against #disinfo www.intellinews.com/moldovan-pol...
Funding cuts have hit the UN hard, and its wider membership faces tough choices about how to manage the fallout.
From Gaza to Sudan to Ukraine, @crisisgroup.org lays out 🔟 challenges for the UN General Assembly to grapple with.
www.crisisgroup.org/visual-expla...
Globalisation isn’t dead it’s fracturing. I spoke with Neil Shearing, group chief economist at Capital Economics, about his new book The Fractured Age. His take: US-China rivalry will define the world economy for decades to come: www.intellinews.com/books-global...
Months after Kosovo’s general election, it's in political and economic crisis. My colleague from @intellinews.com writes that the deadlock is worsened by Kosovo’s past: the KLA’s legacy and ethnic tensions www.intellinews.com/balkan-blog-...
Growth forecast for 2025 (%):
🇲🇹 4.1
🇩🇰 3.6
🇮🇪 3.4
🇵🇱 3.3
🇭🇷 3.2
🇨🇾 3.0
🇪🇸 2.6
🇬🇷 2.3
🇸🇮 2.0
🇱🇹 2.0
🇧🇬 2.0
🇨🇿 1.9
🇵🇹 1.8
🇱🇺 1.7
🇸🇰 1.5
🇷🇴 1.4
🇳🇱 1.3
🇪🇺 1.1
🇸🇪 1.1
🇪🇪 1.1
🇫🇮 1.0
🇭🇺 0.8
🇧🇪 0.8
🇮🇹 0.7
🇫🇷 0.6
🇱🇻 0.5
🇩🇪 0.0
🇦🇹 -0.3
Spring #ECForecast → europa.eu/!cFPpp9
Graph from the Bucharest Stock Exchange showing the rebound in the BET blue chip index after #Romania presidential election runoff; dip in middle is period b/w the 1st and 2nd rounds when unclear whether pro-EU moderate Nicusur Dan or far-right AUR leader George Simion would win
“We keep struggling, but we are strong and now we are stronger than we were in 2022, but of course we have suffered a lot,” said Ukraine’s Finance Minister Sergii Marchenko at a high-level panel on Ukraine. Bne IntelliNews
The Middle East is bracing for another intense heatwave set to grip the region from May 17, with temperatures likely to easily surpass 50 degrees Celsius in the next few days. Bne IntelliNews
Colombia has formally joined China's Belt and Road Initiative despite strong opposition from the country's private sector, which warns the decision could severely damage domestic industries. Bne IntelliNews
This report presented at the #EBRDam analyses industrial policy from 240 countries; I previously covered it for @bneintellinews but it’s become particularly timely given the ongoing #tariffs war pro.intellinews.com/ebrd-warns-o...
Dainius Vilčinskas, managing director of ILTE looks at financing challenges for new power projects due to combination of low electricity prices, conservative banks, lack of stock market development … therefore important role of #EBRD and other IFIs
Gatis Junghans, member of the management board at Augstsprieguma tikls says: all 3 Baltic states have ambition in the next five years to become self sufficient, turn this into a net exporting region; speaks of major investments needed
Riina Käi of Elering AS tells #EBRDam: the 15 year project became urgent in 2022 after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But "this is only a beginning, we are developing new markets”
#EBRDam panel looks at what happens in the Baltics after they disconnected from Russia’s electricity grid in February 2025
Looking out over #London from the #EBRD headquarters in Canary Wharf
Walid Oueslati, OECD, tells #EBRDam: there are 1bn people without access to drinkable water. "Without water there’s no development, no peace, no life. The destruction of the global hydrological cycle is big challenge for all humanity”
my coverage of the #EBRD latest forecasts for @bneIntelliNews - bank downgraded its forecasts for many countries in its region of operations
Positives are defence, infrastructure and private consumption, with potential for reforms to also drive growth
EBRD chief economist Beata Javorcik told bneIntelliNews it’s “a story of the external environment affecting our countries of operations, in particular developments on the trade front”. Main impacts coming via Germany and China.
EBRD presented 2025 growth forecasts this morning at #EBRDam. deepest downgrades in CEE, Baltics and Western Balkans. Bank f’casts average growth of 3.0% across Emerging Europe, Central Asia and North Africa for 2025, down from the 3.2% predicted in February www.intellinews.com/ebrd-cuts-20...
Croatian Finance Minister Marko Primorac at the #EBRDam: “Croatia is an exceptionally stable, small, open economy with modern infrastructure and a favourable energy mix.”
Croatian Finance Minister Marko Primorac at the #EBRDam: “Croatia is a story of a country that had to fight for its independence in the early 90s … while other CEE countries were trying to attract FDI, Croatia had to rebuild its infrastructure and private sector, and create our democracy.”
At the #EBRDam in London's Canary Wharf this morning
opposition Democrat leader claimed a "merciless" violation of election rules
As of afternoon on May 12, 44% of ballots counted, the Socialist Party had secured 83 seats in the 140-member parliament, according to the Central Election Commission
partial results from #Albania's general election show PM Edi Rama's Socialists closing in on an unprecedented fourth term
📢 New ECFR special!
While Europe focuses on Ukraine, the Red Sea remains a strategic blind spot. The ECFR’s new project maps these shifting dynamics and outlines 7 steps for the EU to better protect its global interests. It’s time for Europe to look south and act.
🔵 A game of cat and mouse. How Russia is circumventing sanctions
➡️ Russia 🇷🇺 still retains numerous avenues for accessing critical goods and technologies, and efforts to reduce its export revenues remain inadequate.
🔵 A report by Iwona Wiśniewska ⤵️
www.osw.waw.pl/en/publikacj...
On my way from Glasgow to London to report for @intellinews.bsky.social from this year’s EBRD annual meeting #EBRDAM
