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...
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Tracking the policies and markets shaping emerging Europe and beyond
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...
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...
The EU’s door to the east is once again ajar, but the partner that spent two decades holding it wide open for newcomers is no longer inside. Taras Kachka, Ukraine’s...
Spain is regularising half a million migrants as other governments shut the door. The backlash at home has been milder than many had feared. Queues, long queues, have...
Poland is on course to graduate from the World Bank. That a rich, high-income economy still has a programme is no failure, but the point. Andrzej Domański welcomed a new...
The Kremlin reviles her, Fico wants her sacked, Paris wants her clipped. Just so. The EU needs a foreign policy chief who is hard on Russia. Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy...
Ukraine and Moldova have opened the first of six EU accession clusters. The euphoria is understandable, but the road to Brussels is long. On June 11, Marta Kos, the...
The 21st century will be shaped not only by the rise of Asia, but by regions that connect continents, such as Central and Eastern Europe. For more than a generation...
The EU’s biometric frontier is a total mess, and while Brexit hasn’t helped, it is only half the reason. Its implementation has been poor. On the morning of April 11...
The European Union has agreed to borrow 150 billion euros to rearm. Unusually, it is mainly the borrowers, not the lenders, who are unhappy. On March 12, Karol Nawrocki...