My new piece for the FT: Croatia is struggling. Set to become the the second former Yugoslav Republic to join the European Union in just five weeks’ time (after Slovenia, which joined in 2004), Croatia has been in recession since 2009, despite being blessed with more than 4,300 km of often stunning coastline and a […]
My new piece for HuffPost: Between East and West, there is already a middle way of sort. The European Union is halfway both in terms of governance and geography, combining multi-party democracy of the European nation-states, joint and partly governed by a pan-European bureaucracy that, it can be argued, has some meritocratic features. Yet, this […]
After Moody’s downgraded Slovenia immediately before the new government’s first international bond issue a few weeks ago, causing government revolt and subsequent threats of a law suit against the rating agency, Fitch followed suit. As Budapest-based colleague from FT, Kester Eddy, writes for FT beyondbrics: The latest turn of the screw has come from credit […]
My quotes in new Financial Times piece on Slovenia: Cleaning up the bank sector, and quickly, is crucial to kick-starting the economy, says Luka Orešković, head of research at Provectus Capital, a Zagreb-based corporate advisory. “Slovenia is an industrial country with strong exporting companies that were driving growth. These companies have to start borrowing again, […]
An analysis for MT I co-authored with Rimantas Zylius, Lithuanian Minister of Economy ’12 on Lithuanian State Owned Enterprise reform and privatization alternatives analysis. Rimantas managed to turn around Lithuanian SOE’s in just 2 years from loss-generating entities to dividend paying enterprises that in 2012 contributed 150mEUR, equal to 1% of VAT collection per annum, to the […]
My new op-ed for the Huffington Post on the underlying issues of the Slovenian economy. As with much of Europe, it’s a primarily political (leadership) crisis. Take a look: HuffPost Business – Unlucky Number 13, Slovenia Co-authored with Daniel Wagner, a colleague from Connecticut.
My op-ed for FT’s This is Africa: As global energy dynamics shift, South Africa must chart the future course of its coal and platinum mining industries At the December 2012 African National Conference party convention, President Jacob Zuma initiated a comprehensive revision of the government’s mining strategy. As the political leadership starts to rethink how […]
New article for the Moscow Times: Another Russian monopoly could undergo privatization this year. After announcements of plans to sell parts of, among others, the diamond company Alrosa and the country’s second-largest bank VTB, the latter could play a crucial role in the privatization of a stake in Rostelecom, a land line national operator that might soon expand into mobile, boosting its valuation and, consequently, privatization prospects. […]
My new oped for the Financial Times: Last week, political change captured headlines globally. Pope Francis took over leadership of 1.2bn Catholics globally, matched by Xi Jinping, with his official ascendance to the presidency over 1.3bn in the People’s Republic of China. In between Beijing and the Vatican (if rather closer to the latter), and […]
My new opinion piece for Moscow Times – the Shale Show continued: http://www.themoscowtimes.com/opinion/article/shale-boom-forces-kremlin-to-focus-on-arctic/476425.html
