Tag Archives: investment cycle
EPS shifts from planning to execution as €3bn transition plan concentrates on a few major projects
Elektroprivreda Srbije (EPS) is moving from a multi-year repositioning phase into an execution cycle, backed by a transition envelope of more than €3 billion by 2030.…
EU reform-linked funding gives Montenegro a predictable investment pipeline through 2030
Montenegro’s EU reform agenda is directly tied to staged EU disbursements, creating a performance-based financing cycle where progress on defined milestones unlocks additional capital. The structure…
Montenegro’s GovTech push moves from strategy to scalable digital state services
In the first half of 2025, Montenegro’s e-government buildout shifted from planning to deployment—expanding a national portal, operationalising interoperability between registers, and aligning electronic identification and…
Rising financing costs are changing Serbia’s industrial investment pace and project mix
Serbia’s industrial expansion has benefited from years of relatively cheap, predictable financing, but Europe’s monetary tightening is raising the cost of capital for new projects. That…
Serbia’s corporate sector enters 2026 flush with liquidity, but investment stays on hold
Serbia’s corporate balance sheets look positioned for expansion—credit growth continues and leverage is moderate—but the investment cycle has not restarted. Instead, companies are borrowing mainly for…
Foreign chambers and the shift to capital concentration in Serbia’s next investment phase
Serbia’s investment ecosystem is moving from broad, incentive-driven expansion toward a model where capital concentration and chamber-linked networks increasingly determine which projects advance. The next cycle—spanning…
Serbia’s investment push hits a new bottleneck: engineering and execution capacity
As Serbia accelerates its investment cycle across energy, infrastructure and industry, the main constraint is shifting from funding and demand to whether projects can be designed…
Industrial offtake is becoming Serbia’s financing lever for energy and export competitiveness
In Serbia, long-term industrial offtake agreements are increasingly replacing spot exposure as the basis for renewable project finance—improving lenders’ confidence by tying electricity supply to predictable…
Serbia’s widening external deficit reflects an investment-led growth shift, not just macro imbalance
Serbia’s current account deficit is widening as a capital-intensive investment cycle boosts imports of equipment and intermediate goods faster than exports materialize. The outcome hinges on…
Repowering turns Southeast Europe’s early wind build-out into a second growth phase
After the first wave of wind deployment across Southeast Europe, developers are increasingly looking at repowering and asset optimisation to bring older turbines in line with…