Digital government can remove the official who demands a bribe, but never the ministers who dismantle the watchdogs that might catch them. On March 19 Kyrylo Kryvolap...
Emerging Europe Insight
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The Iran war has left Central Europe’s growth largely intact, but inflation is sticking, Ukraine is battered and Russia is in crisis. The energy price shock from...
The memory crunch is a fab story. The quieter squeeze, one step later, in advanced packaging, runs through a few makers of ultrafast lasers. Tim Cook told the Wall...
Six months on, Bulgaria’s feared price shock never came. Romania, watching closely next door, should note where the real trouble truly lies. Just after midnight on...
Brutal regimes rarely want for trading partners. The Taliban are only the latest to find that strategy and commerce outlast moral objection. Gul Hassan, the...
Spain is regularising half a million migrants as other governments shut the door. The backlash at home has been milder than many had feared. Queues, long queues, have...
Artificial intelligence now turns the lone founder into a credible rival to the corporation, and the steady salaried job into a riskier bet. In February 2025 Maor...
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. Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy...
Demand for a few, highly advanced technology skills is surging while Europe’s wider IT employment market softens. How to square the circle? In March 2026 Arthur Mensch...
The best way for investment promotion agencies to reinvent is also the cheapest: place data-driven aftercare at the core of their pitches. Carolina Arriagada...
The European Union has agreed to borrow 150 billion euros to rearm. Unusually, it is mainly the borrowers, not the lenders, who are unhappy. On March 12, Karol Nawrocki...
The EBRD’s annual gathering in Riga next month shows that there is a great deal of life left in what critics often dismiss as talking shops. Tomas Kairys, the European...