Luxury
If you are an Italian pensioner and decide to move to Albania, you can suddenly afford little luxuries like a fish dinner, even if you are low-income. More and more Italians go and live on the quiet and cheap Albanian seaside: but how big is this phenomenon? And how does it unfold?
Tourists visiting Georgia usually look for unspoilt nature and heritage. Yet Tbilisi elites argue that a massive real estate project can further boost tourism in the country. Trading the capital's green lungs for blocks of luxury apartments doesn't seem a good deal to citizens' organizations however.
More in the news: weak law provisions make the problem of sexual harassment in Southern Caucasus particularly worrying; microcredit and ethical finance are on the rise in Europe, but there are differences between East and West.
