Digital government can remove the official who demands a bribe, but never the ministers who dismantle the watchdogs that might catch them...
Analysis
Some ‘sovereigntists’ in the EU dream of an alternative to Brussels, but even Russia admits that BRICS cannot yet provide what they want...
Türkiye is urging the world to electrify before it hosts November’s COP31 summit, even as coal still grips the country’s...
The Last Word: Organisations that matter will not ask whether AI replaces people. They will ask what people can now become capable of doing...
The Iran war has left Central Europe’s growth largely intact, but inflation is sticking, Ukraine is battered and Russia is in crisis...
The memory crunch is a fab story. The quieter squeeze, one step later, in advanced packaging, runs through a few makers of ultrafast lasers...
Retail apps turned owning shares into a quick phone tap. The money seldom reaches the firms it tracks, and the votes pool in very few hands...
Six months on, Bulgaria’s feared price shock never came. Romania, watching closely next door, should note where the real trouble...
The money to rebuild Ukraine is being lined up behind public guarantees. Most of it moves only once Russia’s war has finally come to an end...
The Last Word: Heat turns assumptions into evidence. The firms that wait for normal to return are confusing relief with genuine readiness...
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...