Tariffs in the Western Balkans are low; the cost of everything else that happens at the border is not. When the World Bank published its spring Regular Economic Report...
Tag - Business & Investment
Where capital is moving and why
Methodology this year favours reinvention: a response to the limits, increasingly visible, of traditional investment promotion practices. We have once again ranked the...
The next wave of global growth is being shaped along an axis that runs between Asia and the Americas. Emerging Europe, the most growth-hungry part of the continent...
Georgia and Armenia outrank most of the EU’s East on economic freedom. Membership need not change that. On October 12 Ursula von der Leyen asked EU leaders to sign...
Most of Central and Eastern Europe has shrugged off the Iran war’s energy shock, though Ukraine and Russia have not. The energy price shock triggered by the Iran war...
Just 23 per cent of CEE businesses have assessed water risks in their supply chains, exposing a major blind spot in corporate risk management. Water is becoming a costly...
Europe’s AI funding has tripled, but mid-sized rounds have barely moved. Europe’s AI funding almost tripled in the first nine months of 2026, while investment rounds...
EU member states increasingly recognise cybersecurity as an issue of economic resilience as well as national security. There is a common proverb that security always...
The aim is not to make Central Europeans American. It is to remember what we once found so attractive about America. Thirty-five years ago, Central and Eastern Europe...
Harnessing AI could improve productivity and help offset demographic pressures. Amid higher energy prices, heightened uncertainty, and weaker economic expansion in...
As Washington raises its tariff walls, Brussels keeps collecting trade partners, and rebranding free trade as self-defence. The European Commission brought its interim...
The proposed pan-European corporate form could free Central Europe’s start-ups from disguising their origins behind Western-sounding brands. When the European...
Governments are pouring record public sums into space. But the returns, and above all the rockets, still belong mostly to America and China. Space may well be the final...