Albania’s flamingos can’t be bribed, and the peaceful revolution they sparked is the cheapest, easiest win the West will find in the Western Balkans. At dawn...
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A discussion that should focus on environmental impact and economic benefits risks becoming a proxy for ideological and cultural anxieties. The controversy current...
Governments in Europe and Central Asia are spending heavily on steering their economies. They are mostly pointing in the wrong direction. The World Bank rarely minces...
Albania’s coders are plugging Germany’s tech talent gap. Christian Dölker, a German entrepreneur based in Tirana, has spent the past three years persuading German...
Albania has built a mature business process outsourcing (BPO) sector that challenges the traditional offshore model. For over two decades, Albanian firms have provided...
A new World Bank report reveals that Eastern Europe and Central Asia is trading 45 per cent below potential. The reshoring bonanza was supposed to be Central and Eastern...
The region must focus on creating quality jobs to catch up with the EU. Economic growth in the Western Balkans is poised to pick up modestly in 2026 before gaining...
How Takeda is bringing personalised medicine to CEE and the Balkans Imagine a future where rare diseases are diagnosed in months instead of decades, where telemedicine...
The cost of further EU enlargement will be high. But the cost of not enlarging the Union—both economic and geopolitical—could be higher still. European leaders...
Entrenched corruption and weakening democratic institutions in the region can frequently be attributed to the dismantling of critical checks and balances. Extensive...
Any negative impact of high US tariffs on European goods and services would be significant for members of the bloc in emerging Europe. Even though the return of Donald...
Will the EU be able to pick up the slack should the Donald Trump administration reduce or end support for Ukraine? Is Warsaw’s mayor about to become Poland’s...
From Ukraine’s ongoing resilience in the face of Russia’s brutal aggression to rigged elections in Georgia, political stalemate in Bulgaria, and the shooting of...