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...
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Tracking the policies and markets shaping emerging Europe and beyond
Brussels is spending billions to route Asian trade around Russia and a war-torn Iran. Much of the cargo still takes the Russian road anyway. Kazakh President Kassym...
Dubai might dig a new port to skirt the Strait of Hormuz. Too soon, say the sceptics; but how soon is now, when the payoff lands decades on? When Dubai’s Sheikh Rashid...
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...
New UNFPA data suggests young people in Eastern Europe and Central Asia have not given up on children, but life keeps getting in the way. Young people across Eastern...
Digital government can remove the official who demands a bribe, but never the ministers who dismantle the watchdogs that might catch them. On March 19 Kyrylo Kryvolap...
Some ‘sovereigntists’ in the EU dream of an alternative to Brussels, but even Russia admits that BRICS cannot yet provide what they want. Aleksandar Vulin...
The Iran war has left Central Europe’s growth largely intact, but inflation is sticking, Ukraine is battered and Russia is in crisis. The energy price shock from...
Russians have created a new market, from intermediaries promising to locate missing soldiers to scammers hunting for compensation payments. Within minutes of posting...
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...
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...