The Green Visa is a new investment category just launched by the Portuguese government as part of its Golden Resident Permit Programme (GRPP). The GRPP, also known as the Portugal Golden Visa, is a residency-by-investment programme that allows non-EU citizens to make a capital investment into Portugal and receive a five-year residency visa.     Other […]

Over the past two decades, the Baltic Sea Region – from the Baltic states to the Nordics – has developed into an integrated, high performing economic region. The Baltic Sea Region economies have performed well – growing faster than many other European economies, as well as the broader EU group and they have averaged a […]

Vietnam is one of the larger and more populated countries in south east Asia. In the absence of any confirmed figures from within the country itself, it is necessary to turn to UN estimates to gauge how the population of Vietnam has been developing over the years : an estimate puts the Vietnam population in […]

Seafood has always been a way of life in Norway. For centuries, Norwegian fishermen have lived in harmony with the sea, with their skills and know-how continuing to evolve with each generation. The passion and knowledge of the fishermen laid the foundation for ocean farming an innovative new industry that would leverage the immense ocean […]

Since Poland completed the transition from Communism to democracy in 1991, its economy has been growing at an average annual rate of 4 percent. Between 1995 and 2018 GDP Annual Growth Rate in Poland averaged 4.16 percent  so it was the only EU country to avoid recession as a result of the global financial crisis […]

Iceland is the OECD’s smallest economy and, currently, the fastest growing one. Iceland suffered a deep financial crisis in 2008.  However, Iceland has made a remarkable turnaround, helped by spectacular growth of tourism and  prudent economic policies. Based on estimates from the Central Intelligence Agency’s World Factbook, Iceland’s exported goods plus services represent 49.6% of […]

All eyes are on the health of the Greek economy as the August bailout exit nears. On 5 May, the ECB (European Central Bank) released the results of banking sector stress tests, which gave the country’s major lenders a sufficiently clean bill of health. The result could allow EUR 20 billion in bailout funds set […]

Stockholm, in 2010 was named “European Green Capital” by Worth Health Organization for the quality of the air. Since many years the municipality has decided for each to become a sustainability city and this includes no longer use of fossil fuels by 2040, so the city has implemented the necessary infrastructure for elettric cars. The […]

Pet food, one of the major segments of pet industry, has grown significantly over the years and currently the pet food industry is growing at a moderate pace. The growing bond between humans and animals and growing pet health concern amongst owners would continue to drive the pet food sales and demand in the pet […]

Over the past two decades, Israel’s hi-tech sector has gone from strength to strength. Known to many as ‘the start-up nation’, the Middle Eastern country has emerged as center for technological innovation. It was the emergence of Israel’s exportbased high-tech sector in the early 1990s that really put the country’s economy on track, with GDP […]