In a largely expected move, the Governing Council of the ECB approved on 22 January a massive quantitative easing program. Despite opposition from the German members of the Governing Council, the executive of the bank adopted the decision by overwhelming majority. The ECB and the central banks of th...

AmCham issued its 2nd Policy Report on Good Governance and Economic Development. Competitiveness, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. Ultimately, whether a country is competitive or not depends on the numbers of positive decisions to invest made by a different investors with disparate inter...

Last week we witnessed significant weakening of the Czech currency. Let’s sum up some facts that led to this scenario and its evolution during the week. As it was already written here the Czech Crown reacted on Friday 9th January on the news of very low inflation rate apart from being influenced by ...

On 13 January, the European Commission presented its analysis of the three-month online public consultation on the investor-state dispute settlement mechanism in the TTIP. The consultation started last March, following the suspension of negotiations on these clauses last January. ISDS has caused hug...