The Last Word: Heat turns assumptions into evidence. The firms that wait for normal to return are confusing relief with genuine readiness...
Analysis
Conferences spent decades selling the big idea. Now, the business has learned that what people pay for is access, and is rebuilding to suit...
Few countries succeed as discreetly as Slovenia does. The low profile rather flatters the place, but capital follows attention, not modesty...
Brutal regimes rarely want for trading partners. The Taliban are only the latest to find that strategy and commerce outlast moral objection...
The EU’s door to the east is once again ajar, but the partner that spent two decades holding it wide open for newcomers is no longer inside...
Spain is regularising half a million migrants as other governments shut the door. The backlash at home has been milder than many had feared...
The Last Word: Before we start deploying AI in schools, perhaps we should learn more about what, exactly, we want to achieve by doing so...
Artificial intelligence now turns the lone founder into a credible rival to the corporation, and the steady salaried job into a riskier bet...
Poland is on course to graduate from the World Bank. That a rich, high-income economy still has a programme is no failure, but the point...
Raising the retirement age does not lock the young out of work. The real threat to Europe’s NEETs is the software devouring the...
The Kremlin reviles her, Fico wants her sacked, Paris wants her clipped. Just so. The EU needs a foreign policy chief who is hard on Russia...
A glut of subsidised steel is forcing a reckoning, and the producers with the leanest books and the smallest treasuries are the ones to pay...
Ukraine and Moldova have opened the first of six EU accession clusters. The euphoria is understandable, but the road to Brussels is long...