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...
Tag - Business & Investment
Where capital is moving and why
Fewer Europeans are eating out and margins are thin. Their way back runs through theatre, delivery and a smaller, cheaper table than before. Guido Zöllick got his tax...
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...
Central and Eastern Europe is becoming Europe’s engine, not its edge. That transition needs a coherent agenda, not sentimentality. For the better part of two...
Retail apps turned owning shares into a quick phone tap. The money seldom reaches the firms it tracks, and the votes pool in very few hands. Omar Arnaout runs XTB, a...
Six months on, Bulgaria’s feared price shock never came. Romania, watching closely next door, should note where the real trouble truly lies. Just after midnight on...
The money to rebuild Ukraine is being lined up behind public guarantees. Most of it moves only once Russia’s war has finally come to an end. Dominykas Tuckus had a...
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...
Conferences spent decades selling the big idea. Now, the business has learned that what people pay for is access, and is rebuilding to suit. When Eric Newcomer hosted...
Few countries succeed as discreetly as Slovenia does. The low profile rather flatters the place, but capital follows attention, not modesty. Of Europe’s smaller...
Brutal regimes rarely want for trading partners. The Taliban are only the latest to find that strategy and commerce outlast moral objection. Gul Hassan, the...
Artificial intelligence now turns the lone founder into a credible rival to the corporation, and the steady salaried job into a riskier bet. In February 2025 Maor...
