Hungary’s election result is a gift for investors, if the new government can deliver swift reform. In the end, it wasn’t even close. After sixteen years in office...
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Tracking the policies and markets shaping emerging Europe and beyond
Europe and Central Asia’s governments are spending more than ever on steering their economies. They are mostly pointing in the wrong direction. The World Bank...
Armenia’s economy is thriving as it loosens ties with Russia and looks towards Brussels. That may be no coincidence. It was, even by the standards of what passes...
Hungary’s exhausted growth model may depend on a change of government to get moving again. For a country that built its modern economic identity on luring foreign...
Europe throws billions at its defence sector. Ukraine’s kitchen-table innovators are already cashing in. Great news for Ukrainian housewives. The European Commission...
The EU’s new deals with Australia are really about minerals, missiles, and the retreat of American reliability. In September 2021, France recalled its ambassadors...
Policymakers obsess over trade agreements. Traders care about markets and logistics, says Timur Tillyaev. Trade policy is increasingly linked with international...
Romania’s two decades of income catch-up are under threat from a fiscal deficit that would give most finance ministers nightmares. In 2025, Romania finally joined...
Turkish Airlines is currently the biggest winner of the US and Israeli war on Iran. The airline disruption caused by the US and Israeli war on Iran is enormous...
The productivity gap that Central Europe can no longer ignore. For three decades, Central and Eastern Europe had a growth model that worked. Low(er) labour costs...
Hungary’s opposition leads by double digits. The system Orbán built may yet save him. Péter Magyar (pictured above, in the white shirt) has not always been the...
Europe and Central Asia’s women are better educated than its men. Getting a decent job is another matter. In many countries across Europe and Central Asia, women...
An international investor reflects on Spain’s strategic role at the intersection of policy, capital and energy transition. As a foreign investor in the European energy...