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.
I just won Lider Magazine’s award for best young financial analyst – journalist “Hrvoje Mateljic” for the year of 2012 on behalf of my work for The Moscow Times and the Financial Times. Many thanks to the jury of Lider Magazine that selected my work as well as the editors at MT and FT for […]
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
My comment for FT’s Beyondbrics on Slovenia’s political leadership shuffle: Luka Oreskovic, an independent political risk advisor, says Slovenia is “at a tipping point,” and the new government must move quickly, and without any mistakes. “Either Alenka Bratusek takes things straightforward and does it right, from reforms to privatisation to the [necessary fiscal] cuts, or […]
My new piece for LSE EUROPP: This July, Croatia is set to become the EU’s newest member state. EU accession will bring with it access to structural and cohesion funding to enhance economic development. However, as Luka Oreskovic writes, there is a danger that Croatia’s government, administration, and private sectors may lack the capacity to absorb this […]
My new piece for Moscow Times: Read more:http://www.themoscowtimes.com//article/shopping-in-europe-gazprom-expands-southward-welcomed-by-croatian-president/474498.html#ixzz2MECHK5wj The Moscow Times
My new piece on housing privatization process in Russia Read more:http://www.themoscowtimes.com//article/worlds-longest-privatization-process-free-housing-in-russia/475948.html#ixzz2MEC3whX0 The Moscow Times
