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...
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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...
The next decade will test more than the wealth of entrepreneurial families. It will test whether they can reinvent what they built, raise successors capable of...
The pattern is simple. An anonymous source. Cheap reach. Fake accounts to make it look big. And whoever speaks first sets the story. This summer, a Ukrainian IT company...
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EU member states increasingly recognise cybersecurity as an issue of economic resilience as well as national security. There is a common proverb that security always...
The aim is not to make Central Europeans American. It is to remember what we once found so attractive about America. Thirty-five years ago, Central and Eastern Europe...
Poland’s new hub is good for all of Central Europe. Poland is building the largest transport project in its modern history, and the argument about it at home has...
Watching Germany talk itself into decline is a strange experience when you watch it from Central and Eastern Europe. For thirty years Germany has been our benchmark: the...
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...