S. Adam Cardais

Recent Articles by S. Adam Cardais

August 27, 2009

Ukraine Must Reform to Tap EU Energy Aid

With winter mere months away and cash-poor Kyiv struggling to pay its monthly gas bills to Moscow, many Europeans couldn't be blamed for worrying, "Will our heat be ...

August 3, 2009

Bargain-Hunting in Eastern Europe

Opportunity often blossoms out of disaster, and no investor wants to look back on the fallout from the global financial crisis as the missed opportunity of a lifetime....

June 9, 2009

Loan Crisis Looming in Eastern Europe?

Will West European banks stand by their Eastern subsidiaries? This was question No. 1 once the global financial crisis crossed into Central and Eastern Europe last ...

May 12, 2009

Men Are Victims of Trafficking, Too

One of the most frustrating evils of human trafficking is how little we're able to learn about it for certain. How many people are trafficked for sexual exploitation ...

April 28, 2009

Companies Need to Act in Eastern Europe

With several Central and Eastern European economies threatening to seize up during the financial crisis, the responsibility for greasing the gears has, as in the ...

April 16, 2009

Eastern Europe Benefits from EU Aid

The European Union has taken flak recently for its response to the financial crisis in Central and Eastern Europe. In March the now-resigned Hungarian prime minister, ...

April 1, 2009

Travel Slowdown Bites Prague

Even for the twilight of winter, the Czech capital seems quiet these days. Now's the time of year when the tourists who in spring and summer crowd the narrow streets ...

February 19, 2009

Budget Airlines Thrive in Central Europe

They're no Steve Eisman – the American hedge fund manager who made a fortune essentially by betting on mortgage-backed securities to drop in value – but budget ...

February 2, 2009

Central Asian Gas Not a Panacea for Europe

Watching some of their citizens forced to shiver through one of the coldest winters on record after Moscow cut natural gas supplies to the Continent via Ukraine last ...

January 19, 2009

The Euro's Growing Appeal

For most of the new European Union countries in Central and Eastern Europe, the euro is like that relationship they never really committed to. All 10 countries knew ...