As Washington raises its tariff walls, Brussels keeps collecting trade partners, and rebranding free trade as self-defence. The European...
Analysis
Teacher shortages are putting pressure on education systems across the OECD. Teacher shortages affect most OECD education systems to...
Trans-Caspian Transport Corridor investments could spur growth and create millions of jobs Across Europe and Central Asia. Countries in...
Governments are pouring record public sums into space. But the returns, and above all the rockets, still belong mostly to America and China...
Covid faded, the politics it fed did not. The populist parties that rode the pandemic dropped the vaccine talk but have all outlasted it...
Teenagers read worse than they did, the newest PISA scores find. Ban their social media if you like; the adults, who vote, fare no better...
Firms worked hard to make their supply chains greener. The more urgent threat is the weather now breaking them, and few have a plan for it...
Germany showed the world what reuniting a country costs. For Moldova, the road west through Brussels looks cheaper and considerably safer...
Fewer than one in seven of Europe’s primary teachers is a man. Governments want to recruit many more of them, but fail to find them. ...
Net zero began as a description of the planet’s carbon budget. It now describes jobs, buildings, and growth, and means less with...
A competitive Africa requires functional institutions and modern technology. Not just declarations of intent, but implementation capacity...
Reykjavik wants the market without the politics. So do Europe’s wealthiest hold-outs, and Britain, above all, ought to be taking note...
Airlines are dividing their cabins into an increasingly wide array of often confusing options. Do you fly Business Light or Premium Economy...