Six months on, Bulgaria’s feared price shock never came. Romania, watching closely next door, should note where the real trouble...
Analysis
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...
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...
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...
Demand for a few, highly advanced technology skills is surging while Europe’s wider IT employment market softens. How to square the circle...