A quick primer on what is, and what is not, digitalisation (in, at least, my humble opinion). Across emerging Europe, governments are responding to the outbreak of the...
Craig Turp-Balazs
Craig Turp-Balazs is head of insight and analysis at Reinvantage.
“We are not a traditional government department,” says Ott Vatter, the managing director of Estonia’s enormously successful e-residency programme. One look at the...
Kosovo, one of the most polluted countries in emerging Europe, could be about to pivot away from a reliance on coal-fired power stations. Earlier this week, Contour...
I’ve worked from home for the best part of the last decade. Over the years there are a few things I have learnt, some of which might be beneficial to those of you...
In extraordinary circumstances, Romania’s parliament has voted to approve the appointment of a new government, led by the Liberal party’s (PNL) Ludovic Orban. The...
Estonia is known for its tech scene, its digital government, its hugely successful e-residency programme and – alas – its inclement weather. As such, a shipping...
I laughed. On March 9, Romania’s tax authority ANAF announced that in order to help combat the spread of the coronavirus Covid-19, it was recommending taxpayers avoid...
Few cities in emerging Europe have changed as much over the past three decades as the Albanian capital Tirana. At first, the transformation was chaotic: hundreds of...
Bulgaria’s finance ministry has announced plans to launch the first regulatory technology (regtech) sandbox in the Balkans. Vladislav Goranov, the country’s...
By any standards of measurement, Polish bus manufacturer Solaris had an outstanding 2019. The firm, based in Bolechowo-Osiedle, near Poznań, secured orders worth...
Across Western Europe, night trains – apparently killed off just a few years ago by low-cost airlines – are making a comeback, as a more environmentally-friendly...
Bringing into government expertise from the private sector and/or civil society has long been viewed by many people in emerging Europe as a way of jump starting or...