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The Western Balkans IT sector has turned a difficult history into a key selling point, and clients are increasingly willing to pay for it. Three World Bank economists...
A court has freed Marine Le Pen to seek the French presidency. A victory would let a founding member corrode the European Union from within. A news cycle focused on the...
High-speed rail sells saved minutes. Most passengers would settle for a train that turns up, runs often and meets a second train on arrival. Apostolos Tzitzikostas and...
Britain promised to ban unpaid internships and has just thought better of it. The evidence says free labour buys almost no advantage at all. Jonathan Reynolds, then...
Brussels is spending billions to route Asian trade around Russia and a war-torn Iran. Much of the cargo still takes the Russian road anyway. Kazakh President Kassym...
Dubai might dig a new port to skirt the Strait of Hormuz. Too soon, say the sceptics; but how soon is now, when the payoff lands decades on? When Dubai’s Sheikh Rashid...
Warsaw is buying more gold than any central bank on earth, through every price dip. The reasoning holds; copying it is harder than it looks. Adam Glapiński was in a...
New UNFPA data suggests young people in Eastern Europe and Central Asia have not given up on children, but life keeps getting in the way. Young people across Eastern...
Brussels is pouring billions into digitising Europe’s water networks, promising fewer leaks and cleaner data, even as hackers test them too. In Bytom, a mining...
Digital government can remove the official who demands a bribe, but never the ministers who dismantle the watchdogs that might catch them. On March 19 Kyrylo Kryvolap...