The Adriatic

Reporting from a region in motion. Published by the Institute for Strategic Solutions (ISR).

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Recent pieces

• No second act

  Ajša Vodnik went from co-owning a television channel to running AmCham Slovenia and chairing AmChams in Europe. She does not believe in second acts.

• Slovenia's largest bank mulls the one Western Balkan market it does not have

  NLB is preparing to open a representative office in Albania and would consider an acquisition if a bank came up for sale, the president of its management board told a business forum in Celje.

• The timber trade Slovenia has not built yet

  Albania spent €349.3 million on wood imports last year. Slovenia has 2.2 million cubic metres of approved timber going uncut. It supplies €884,000.

• Maribor wants a bigger cut of what passes through it

  Slovenia's second city is trying to turn geography into an economic model.

• Slovenia has plenty of plans. It could do with some decisions

  Lightly indebted energy companies and willing banks are meeting a scarcer commodity. Projects far enough along to be financed.

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