Covid faded, the politics it fed did not. The populist parties that rode the pandemic dropped the vaccine talk but have all outlasted it. When Lady Evelyn Beauchamp died...
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Teenagers read worse than they did, the newest PISA scores find. Ban their social media if you like; the adults, who vote, fare no better. Amidst a deluge of short-form...
Firms worked hard to make their supply chains greener. The more urgent threat is the weather now breaking them, and few have a plan for it. Nearly nine in ten (87 per...
Germany showed the world what reuniting a country costs. For Moldova, the road west through Brussels looks cheaper and considerably safer. It’s often said that the...
How BRICS is helping the Global South harness technology to deliver better healthcare, protect livelihoods, and strengthen food security. Artificial intelligence is...
Artificial intelligence is the technology of the moment, and Central and Eastern Europe can meet it as eleven competitors or as one region. Artificial intelligence (AI)...
Fewer than one in seven of Europe’s primary teachers is a man. Governments want to recruit many more of them, but fail to find them. In April of last year, while...
The Last Word: When competitiveness is beginning to slip, asking people to work harder can actually look suspiciously like moving backwards. Germany has spent much of...
Net zero began as a description of the planet’s carbon budget. It now describes jobs, buildings, and growth, and means less with every year. Net zero. It’s a...
OpenAI is putting ads in ChatGPT and Anthropic will not touch them. It is hardly a reinvention, yet ads never stopped anyone using Google. Artificial...
After Iceland’s European Union referendum, the bloc’s next big enlargement test lies on the Adriatic, where delay carries a strategic cost. Iceland’s rejection of...
A competitive Africa requires functional institutions and modern technology. Not just declarations of intent, but implementation capacity. Africa trades as much as East...