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77% of companies from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) say they are investing in business development. The share of companies investing in product and service innovation in CEE is higher than in the European Union (27% vs. 24%). The main barriers to investment are the uncertain macroeconomic situation (87%), rising energy costs (87%) and the shortage of skilled labour (82%). The European Investment Bank (EIB) has published the results of a survey on the investment levels in CEE companies — “Business Model Update: Are CEE Companies Investing Enough?”.

On 12 April, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (“BEIS”) published two further updates on the proposed Dispatchable Power…

Walter Lippmann. May 22, 2021  —  Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from CubaNews — The Cuban Communist Party’s VIII Congress, held in Havana in April 16-19, 2021, found the island confronting perhaps its greatest challenges since the revolutionary government came to power in 1959. Washington’s multi-faceted blockade has been intensified more than ever before, and the Covid-19 pandemic struck a cruel body blow to the island’s tourism economy, its principal source of foreign hard-currency income. As the island’s sole political party, the PCC has faced...