Russia’s election fools nobody, which is rather the point. It also hands Putin a stick with which to beat a Ukraine that cannot vote at all. Oh the suspense...
Emerging Europe Insight
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Two-fifths of the world’s land is degrading. The COP charged with halting it sits in Mongolia this month, starved of money and of attention. Think COP, think...
The taxi trade rarely answers ride-hailing with a better cab. Where it can, it answers with the statute book, and calls it fair competition. There are plenty of things...
The city that abolished outdoor advertising is having second thoughts. Two decades on, the admen it banished have found their way back in. Walking around São Paulo for...
Post-Brexit, millions of young Europeans want an English-taught degree. Central and Eastern Europe’s universities have an opportunity. In the often fierce but...
Building infrastructure is a game for giants. Keeping it running, especially the clean-energy grid, is where nimble start-ups now break in. As anyone who has driven over...
Each of the six Western Balkan economies has found its own tech and innovation niche, and together they add up to far more than the parts. Branko Milutinović and a...
Immigrants increasingly back the parties that would have kept them out. The latest arrivals, it seems, are keenest to pull up the ladder. Backed by the hard-right...
Romania’s stock market is small, unfashionable and, over the past decade, the best-performing in the world. Almost no Romanians own a share. There is, of course...
A brutal July sell-off in AI chip shares has caught out many retail investors. Whether prices return to their highs is the loudest question. Mark Zuckerberg did not buy...
Ukrainian drones have choked Kazakhstan’s main oil route through Russia. Romania is most exposed, and Astana is now hedging each bet it has. Kassym-Jomart Tokayev...
A wave of costly failures has humbled vertical farming. Its next chapter is now being written underground, and it looks far more affordable. In July Jacob Nickles and...