Tariffs in the Western Balkans are low; the cost of everything else that happens at the border is not. When the World Bank published its spring Regular Economic Report...
Emerging Europe Insight
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Methodology this year favours reinvention: a response to the limits, increasingly visible, of traditional investment promotion practices. We have once again ranked the...
The students who toppled Aleksandar Vučić inherit a stalled EU bid, a leaky budget and a sanctioned oil company. Unsurprisingly, a small army of right-wing influencers...
Most of Central and Eastern Europe has shrugged off the Iran war’s energy shock, though Ukraine and Russia have not. The energy price shock triggered by the Iran war...
Just 23 per cent of CEE businesses have assessed water risks in their supply chains, exposing a major blind spot in corporate risk management. Water is becoming a costly...
Governments want to know where every tonne of steel and sack of coffee comes from, but their customs posts are still working out where to put the answer. On January 1...
Harnessing AI could improve productivity and help offset demographic pressures. Amid higher energy prices, heightened uncertainty, and weaker economic expansion in...
Romanian businesses are hurrying to put AI to work, while their customers (and their budgets) take a more leisurely approach. Romanians still pay for most things in cash...
North Macedonia can accelerate growth and create more and better-paid jobs with the right reforms. A targeted set of reforms, focused on strengthening governance...
StartupBlink’s 2026 Global Startup Ecosystem Index recorded 91.9 per cent growth in Moldova, the highest in Europe and third-highest worldwide. It may still only be...
As Washington raises its tariff walls, Brussels keeps collecting trade partners, and rebranding free trade as self-defence. The European Commission brought its interim...
Teacher shortages are putting pressure on education systems across the OECD. Teacher shortages affect most OECD education systems to varying degrees, with recruitment...