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On 11 March 2025, the Café Kyiv took place in Berlin. The German Economic Team, in cooperation with the German Chamber of Industry and Commerce and the German Chamber of Foreign Trade in Ukraine, organised a panel discussion on investment security.

On February 12, 2025, the Foreign Investor Association of Albania (FIAA) and the German Economic Team (GET) co-hosted the event “Improving the Business Climate – Boosting Investment: Proposals from International Investors in Albania” in Tirana.  

Our policy briefing, “CBAM and Kosovo: Economic implications and potential exemption for electricity exports to EU” examines the economic and regulatory impacts of the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) on Kosovo.

In the latest edition of the joint online event organised by CES and the German Economic Team, participants looked back at the major economic developments of the past year.

Since 2 January 2025, Moldova has used the euro as its reference currency, replacing the US dollar. A reference currency is a foreign currency used by the national central bank for foreign exchange market interventions and exchange rate smoothing.

On 19 December, the online event “Ukraine’s Economic Resilience Through Private Investment” took place, organised by the German-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, UkraineInvest, the Centre for Economic Strategy, and the German Economic Team.

As part of the monthly joint events, the Centre for Economic Strategy (CES) and the German Economic Team (GET) presented the latest updates on Ukraine’s economic situation. This edition placed a particular emphasis on Ukraine’s fiscal policy.

On November 14th the most recent edition of the online event series “Current economic situation and forecasts of economic development in Belarus” of the German Chamber of Commerce Abroad (AHK Belarus) took place. More than 60 representatives of various German governmental organisations and German companies in Belarus took part in the event.

The German-Kosovar Economic Forum 2024, organised by the German-Kosovar Business Association on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Berlin Process, took place in Pristina on 2–3 October 2024. The forum, which brought together more than 500 people, opened up a wide range of opportunities for dialogue and cooperation with the Kosovar government, as well as international and local partners.

Berlin Economics had the pleasure of hosting a delegation of government officials from Uzbekistan as part of their broader study tour focused on SMEs development and digital entrepreneurship. This initiative was organized by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and offered a valuable platform for meaningful dialogue on enhancing small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in transitioning economies.

We regularly present our work as part of our government advisory services to our client, the German Federal Ministry for Economics Affairs and Climate Action. Yesterday, Ukraine and Moldova were on the agenda.

The Berlin Process, launched in 2014, is an intergovernmental cooperation initiative to strengthen ties between a group of EU Member States, inter alia Germany, France and Poland, and EU membership candidate and potential candidate countries in Southeastern Europe. It also aims to foster cooperation in areas like economic development and infrastructure.