The dominance of AI and defence investments point to a maturing, more focused regional ecosystem. Baltic start-up funding rose in 2025, with total venture capital...
Tag - Business & Investment
Where capital is moving and why
Two megadeals—ElevenLabs and ICEYE—accounted for a significant share, jointly raising over 300 million. Excluding these two transactions, the Polish VC market still grew...
Brussels is financing infrastructure in the Western Balkans. EU membership is another matter. On the outskirts of Tirana, diggers are preparing the ground for what will...
Women remain underrepresented at all levels of the corporate ladder, particularly in senior leadership roles. A recent lawsuit, in which a former president at Insight...
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...
A new study suggests the South Caucasus’s banking transformation has less to do with who’s winning now than who might win tomorrow. The South Caucasus has...
The EU economy defies gloom, but hardly inspires euphoria. For an economy that spent much of the past three years staggering from one crisis to another, Europe’s...
Poland’s high-speed rail ambitions depend on Brussels opening its wallet. Poland is readying itself to ask the European Union for billions of złoty to build its...
Brussels hopes a new fund will stop promising tech firms from fleeing to America. Europe has long been plagued by a peculiar malady: it excels at birthing innovative...
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...
Digitalisation alone won’t make Kazakhstan a tech powerhouse. But when combined with clear strategy, cross-sector collaboration, and openness to global standards, it can...
Bulgaria’s journey to the eurozone faces political hurdles, but economic gains beckon. Bulgaria’s currency, the lev, has been pegged to the euro since 1997...
Despite Russia’s brutal invasion, Ukraine’s economy forges ahead. There may be stalemate on the battlefield, but on the economic front, Ukraine is advancing...
