Business reports

Ukraine has a huge potential to develop in the sector af agriculture. Its output is far below what can be achived through better organization and technologies. This is a look at week and strong sides wich are to be faced by Kiev....

The automotive sector was among the most affected by the financial crisis in 2009. World production decreased for the second year in a row: in 2009 production of motor vehicles dropped by almost 10mn units....

The Republic of Belarus has the most centralized economic structure in the area of central-eastern Europe. This feature is felt strongly in the agricultural sector, where the government still holds a large decisional power. During the last years a progressive path toward a more open economy, promoted by the central power, has touched many economic areas....

Dated March 2008, this study was commissioned to DGR Consultin in 2007 in order to evaluate the possible realization of the project "Coast to Coast". It consists in two main sections: tourism between the Italian region Emilia Romagna and Croatia on one side and the developement of commercial and business exchanges between Emilia Romagna and Croatia on the other side.

The European Commission and the European Union have been pushing member states for ten years to adopt effective energy saving policies; Eastern Europe and the Balkans are the main targets of these regulations....

The issue of economic growth has been at the heart of European policy for the last decade or more. In this context the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans are trying hard to revive their national economies....

Food security and food safety are two concepts, both taken into growing consideration by all governments of the world, especially in sight of rising food prices and increasingly unpredictable weather events. Eastern Europe is facing some essential challenges....

Since the last century, some of the worst plant diseases and parasites were defeated by new kinds of herbicides and pesticides. This led to the long awaited food security in the countries of western Europe and an improved productivity of cultivated land in Eastern Europe. As for today, in the region considered, the chemical agents in agriculture are not only a key trait of present day farming, but....

Food security and productivity of land are two of the main items which nowadays draw the attention to the agricultural world sector. The need to enlarge the quantity and frequency of every kind of harvest, has led to the employment of....

From the Soviet period the Russian Federation inherited a rigid industrial structure on which it has built its present-day productive system with substantial continuity. The difficulties faced by Moscow in diversifying the national economy are damaging....

The Republic of Lithuania must face the challenge of energy security, despite its clear dependence on Russian fossil fuel imports. Its main source of energy, independent from abroad, is nowadays the Ignalina nuclear site, situated in north-east of the tiny country. Its closure at the end of 2009....

Food production and agriculture play an important role in Montenegro's economy, with the primary sector alone providing (source: Eurostat) more than 10% of total GDP (GDP (EUR 2.95 Billion in 2009), compared to 2% in the EU27, together with processing industry shares around 20% of GDP, and 4.9% of total exports. Surveys reveal an agricultural labor force of 11,902, while official estimates point to a total of around 55,000 rural households in Montenegro.

Poland has been building its army in order to satisfy the technological requirements of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The large amount of money nedeed to upgrade the national Armed Forces has been used to import wepon systems from abroad

Sopecial Economic Zones (SEZ) in Russia aren't fully accomplishing their mission and role. The reasons are many....

The livestock industry in the Forlì-Cesena Province produces over 300 million euros of output in value terms. Production areas (poultry, eggs, cattle and pigs) are organizing themselves into strongly integrated systems in order to reduce market risks and capture greater product ranges of value added. To complete the process of integration and specialization with targeted market positioning, it is also necessary to specialize the feed component. This component has an estimated value of approximately 150 million euros per year, using mainly imported raw materials.