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Change & Recovery: Is your business going global without you realising it?
Employee mobility rising due to remote work Beyond simply working from home, employees are now crossing borders while working remotely. As a result, companies face new opportunities and challenges. Now that verifying employees’ whereabouts is often difficult in practice, tax and compliance risks could be lurking. Origins: the concept of a global workforce In the […]...
TMT M&A in CEE soars in 2020 and this year could be even better
Despite the pandemic, and, in some cases, because of it, M&A in the technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) sector has flourished. According to our survey, it will continue to do so Few sectors were spared amid the mass disruption to public life caused by the pandemic in 2020 – with the notable exception of the […]...
Improved technology and lower costs: how CEE/SEE will meet the EU’s ambitious new climate goals through renewables
As Europe reacts to the impact of the Global COVID-19 pandemic on its populations and budgets, it must not lose sight of the need to proactively implement the recently adopted European Green Deal – not despite the pandemic, but because of it. With Europe reeling from the impacts of COVID-19 and the news cycles dominated […]...
One man’s trash: the story behind the success of Belgrade’s waste-to-energy project
Thirty to forty professionals made polite introductions on the 5th floor of a Belgrade office building and took seats around the large marbled room to follow the PowerPoint presentation. This was the start of the first competitive dialogue meeting for the “PPP Project for the City of Belgrade for the Provision of Services of Treatment […]...
European Islands as drivers of sustainable development in clean energy
Europe’s islands face significant challenges, such as inadequate transport links with the mainland, scarcity of resources, fragile economic activity limited by size and seasonality, unemployment and emigration as the younger population leaves in search of job security. The European Islands Facility – NESOI aims to fund 60 successful energy transition projects which have the greatest […]...
What role can Competition Law play in tackling climate change?
Competition law has long been regarded as an obstacle to achieving environmental goals through cooperation between businesses, since competition enforcers have historically taken account of environmental objectives only under narrow circumstances. In the face of the climate crisis, this is about to change: the European Commission and many national competition authorities are currently rethinking their […]...