Governments in rich countries are pushing up the cost of hiring despite possible alternatives for raising revenue not being in short supply. In December 2025 Rainer...
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The Last Word: AI’s next battle is not the model, but the organisation. From ‘What can the model do?’ to ‘What can the organisation absorb?’ For the past few years...
Kazakhstan’s economy is growing at a decent rate, but its workforce is not. Schools, vocational training, and adult skills must be improved. In January 2025, Chevron...
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...
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Half of Europeans never use public transport. Freebies are an easy answer, but as some countries have found out, they don’t ease congestion. Eurostat published a...
Restrictions on the export of critical raw materials are surging. Producers may regret it, for they deliver revenue, briefly, but then what? Mathias Cormann opened the...
Geography is becoming the least interesting barrier between Canada and the European Union. But the maple leaf will never fly over Brussels. This week in Yerevan, Mark...
The Last Word: The future belongs to those who fix what they once ignored, and build organisations that deliver innovation when it matters. For nearly two decades...
Growth in CEE is so far holding up against the Iran energy shock. But the extended-workbench model is faltering. Growth across most of the economies of Central, East and...
A 50 billion euros data centre in a Croatian backwater is exactly the kind of project that the Three Seas Initiative was created to deliver. Topusko is not where you...