Nationalist policies in Poland and Hungary have raised concerns in Europe about the future of Central and Eastern Europe in the European Union, but you would never know that from the pace of foreign investment in commercial property. Foreign investors purchased €12 billion ($14 billion) of commercial real estate in the region in 2017, according to data firm Real Capital Analytics Inc. This was the highest level of cross-border investment into the region in a decade.... … [Read more...] about Foreign Investors Gobble Up Property in Central, Eastern Europe Despite Political Concerns
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Amazon, Auto Companies Stoke Logistics Boom in Eastern Europe
The industrial real-estate market is booming in Central and Eastern Europe, thanks to the region’s geography and cheap labor along with the benefits of Europe’s unified currency and lack of trade restrictions. Developers are adding new warehouses and distribution facilities at a record pace. The math is simple: the facilities can be built and operated at low cost in countries like Poland or the Czech Republic and still serve affluent markets of high-cost countries such as Germany, Switzerland and France.... … [Read more...] about Amazon, Auto Companies Stoke Logistics Boom in Eastern Europe
Lead and Crime in Eastern Europe: A Hopeless Case
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Tyler Cowen has an odd Drum-bait headline today: Why is there no lead-homicide connection in Eastern Europe? Children growing up in former communist CEE [Central and Eastern European] countries during the 1980s were subjected to horrific amounts of industrial pollution, including extreme levels of prolonged lead exposure. Since lead is theorized to be a primary culprit in exacerbating violent crime, you would assume there would be a sizeable discrepancy in the homicide rate between, say, former East Germany and West Germany, or Western Europe and Eastern Europe as a whole. But the difference in the homicide/violent crime rate is negligible, with many former communist CEE countries having a lower homicide rate than Western Europe. I suspect the same is true when comparing the rate of mental disorders, which is another malady that is supposedly influenced by exposure to high levels of industrial pollution. The text is … [Read more...] about Lead and Crime in Eastern Europe: A Hopeless Case
Last chance to register for the 4th annual Future Armoured Vehicles Central and Eastern Europe Conference
Future Armoured Vehicles Central and Eastern Europe SMi Reports: With just over a week to go, it’s the last chance to register for the 4th annual Future Armoured Vehicles Central and Eastern Europe conference. LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, May 14, 2018 /EINPresswire.com/ -- This year’s Future Armoured Vehicles Central and Eastern Europe conference will be taking place in just over a week on the 21st and 22nd May 2018 in Prague, Czech Republic, with over 55 organisations already signed up for Central and Eastern Europe’s most focused armoured vehicles meeting. The two-day event will explore the core areas of armoured vehicle modernisation, including survivability, lethality, mobility, sustainability, and platform integration into legacy material. In addition, key updates from military programme managers, operational commanders and land force planners will provide an overview of the current operational environment and areas for capability development. This year’s … [Read more...] about Last chance to register for the 4th annual Future Armoured Vehicles Central and Eastern Europe Conference
Eastern Europe Is The Fastest-Growing Region For The Cancer Drugs Market
Cancer Drugs Market Growth Rates By Region 2017-21 LONDON, GREATER LONDON , UK, May 9, 2018 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Regions of the world that previously lagged in terms of cancer drug sales are now growing much faster than the established regions, a report from The Business Research Company shows. Fastest is Eastern Europe, where the market will grow at nearly 12% a year up to 2021, while Asia Pacific’s growth rate will be second fastest at 7.3% a year. This catch-up by these less economically developed regions will mean that the global market, worth $126 billion in 2017, will grow at 8.8 % a year up to 2021. In the established regions, North America, and Western Europe, which together accounted for nearly 80% of the market in 2017, growth is also expected to accelerate, to 6% and 6.8% respectively. Anti-cancer or anti-neoplastic agents are the drugs that prevent or inhibit or halt the proliferation and maturation of neoplasms, an abnormal growth of tissues commonly called tumors. … [Read more...] about Eastern Europe Is The Fastest-Growing Region For The Cancer Drugs Market