The darker side of digital nomadism. Our newfound ability to work from anywhere creates problems for nomads, locals, and policymakers alike. The laptop-toting, café...
Tag - Economy & Politics
Tracking the policies and markets shaping emerging Europe and beyond
In the first of a short series of articles looking at the economy of Mongolia, we take a look at where the country has made good progress. When Moody’s and S&P...
The IMF’s headline growth and forecast figures probably matter far less than they appear to. So why continue to make such a fuss about them? On April 14, Pierre-Olivier...
The Last Word: We’re not entering the age of artificial intelligence. We’re re-entering the age of energy, this time with better marketing. Europe has spent much of...
Climate leadership requires more than just ambition. Targets need to be supported by stable, investor-grade frameworks, says Timur Tillyaev. Europe’s climate credentials...
The case for institutionalising long-term thinking in government is growing, but the results of experiments carried out so far are mixed. The Welsh government’s...
The case for small, agile allies: Strategic realism for a paradigm of distributed deterrence, and the political opportunities it presents. There is a compelling and...
Hungary’s election result is a gift for investors, if the new government can deliver the swift reform that the European Union wants to see. In the end, it wasn’t...
Governments in Europe and Central Asia are spending heavily on steering their economies. They are mostly pointing in the wrong direction. The World Bank rarely minces...
Armenia’s economy is thriving as it loosens ties with Russia and embraces the European Union. That is almost certainly not a coincidence. It was, even by the...
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...