The Western Balkans IT sector has turned a difficult history into a key selling point, and clients are increasingly willing to pay for it...
Analysis
A court has freed Marine Le Pen to seek the French presidency. A victory would let a founding member corrode the European Union from within...
High-speed rail sells saved minutes. Most passengers would settle for a train that turns up, runs often and meets a second train on arrival...
The Last Word: Reinvention is the ability to turn learning into a different path. It means changing what you do, and how you create value...
Britain promised to ban unpaid internships and has just thought better of it. The evidence says free labour buys almost no advantage at all...
A viral video from Paris this week revived the case against tethered caps. The evidence that might settle the argument arrives in July 2027...
Brussels is spending billions to route Asian trade around Russia and a war-torn Iran. Much of the cargo still takes the Russian road anyway...
Fewer Europeans are eating out and margins are thin. Their way back runs through theatre, delivery and a smaller, cheaper table than before...
Dubai might dig a new port to skirt the Strait of Hormuz. Too soon, say the sceptics; but how soon is now, when the payoff lands decades on...
Warsaw is buying more gold than any central bank on earth, through every price dip. The reasoning holds; copying it is harder than it looks...
The Last Word: Creativity is not the ability to summon ideas out of nowhere, but to recognise a real possibility before it becomes obvious...
New UNFPA data suggests young people in Eastern Europe and Central Asia have not given up on children, but life keeps getting in the way...
Brussels is pouring billions into digitising Europe’s water networks, promising fewer leaks and cleaner data, even as hackers test...