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. Andrzej Domański welcomed a new...
Marek Grzegorczyk
Marek Grzegorczyk is an analyst at Reinvantage.
Ukraine and Moldova have opened the first of six EU accession clusters. The euphoria is understandable, but the road to Brussels is long. On June 11, Marta Kos, the...
A partnership between bikes and trains ought to be one of transport’s natural pairings. In many parts of Europe that is no longer the case. A prominent railway...
Europe is pouring money into the wrong end of its power grid. Distribution grids are what stand between households and cheaper energy bills. In March, Energinet, the...
Replacing GDP targets with wellbeing sounds appealing. Those (very) few countries that have tried it are retreating from the idea, however. Zack Polanski delivered his...
Compliance carbon pricing is broadly working, and revenues are rising. However, the voluntary market that companies relied on is in trouble. Microsoft staff began...
As bilateral aid retreats, the world’s development banks are reaching further than ever. Their critics worry that they have lost the plot. In London in mid-May 2025, at...
Hungary’s drubbing in Luxembourg shows why the sovereigntists are half right: EU members can’t just do what they want. That’s a good thing. The European Court of...
The case for institutionalising long-term thinking in government is growing, but the results of experiments carried out so far are mixed. The Welsh government’s...
Bulgaria’s journey to the eurozone faces political hurdles, but economic gains beckon. Bulgaria’s currency, the lev, has been pegged to the euro since 1997...
The GovTech revolution offers a vision not of more government, nor less government, but smarter government—one that leverages private sector innovation to deliver public...
An ageing continent must find new financing models in era of digital and climate transformation. Europe’s welfare states, long the envy of the world, now face an...