Analysis

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IT sector in focus: Armenia

Russian emigration turbocharged the country’s tech scene. The trick now is keeping it going. Armenia stumbled into geopolitical fortune. When...

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Roads to nowhere?

Brussels is financing infrastructure in the Western Balkans. EU membership is another matter. On the outskirts of Tirana, diggers are preparing the...

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The pilot paradox

Why most industrial AI experiments fail—and how to fix them. Nearly nine in ten organisations worldwide now deploy artificial intelligence in at...

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Against the TIDES

A new World Bank report reveals that Eastern Europe and Central Asia is trading 45 per cent below potential. The reshoring bonanza was supposed to be...

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Banking on peace

A new study suggests the South Caucasus’s banking transformation has less to do with who’s winning now than who might win tomorrow. The...

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Europe’s modest momentum

The EU economy defies gloom, but hardly inspires euphoria. For an economy that spent much of the past three years staggering from one crisis to...

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Mind the funding gap

Poland’s high-speed rail ambitions depend on Brussels opening its wallet. Poland is readying itself to ask the European Union for billions of...