Some ‘sovereigntists’ in the EU dream of an alternative to Brussels, but even Russia admits that BRICS cannot yet provide what they want. Aleksandar Vulin...
Marek Grzegorczyk
Marek Grzegorczyk is an analyst at Reinvantage.
Retail apps turned owning shares into a quick phone tap. The money seldom reaches the firms it tracks, and the votes pool in very few hands. Omar Arnaout runs XTB, a...
Few countries succeed as discreetly as Slovenia does. The low profile rather flatters the place, but capital follows attention, not modesty. Of Europe’s smaller...
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...
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...