As Washington raises its tariff walls, Brussels keeps collecting trade partners, and rebranding free trade as self-defence. The European Commission brought its interim...
Tag - Economy & Politics
Tracking the policies and markets shaping emerging Europe and beyond
A structured, transparent framework for ‘associate membership’ can give CEE and its neighbours a concrete pathway for market access, research, and industrial...
Why three regions that believe in their future should discover each other now. Walk through São Paulo, Mumbai or Bucharest and, beneath the obvious differences, you feel...
Trans-Caspian Transport Corridor investments could spur growth and create millions of jobs Across Europe and Central Asia. Countries in Europe and Central Asia could...
The European Commission now says plainly that electric cars make Europe more secure, not just greener. Yet its policies still too often treat energy security as an...
Covid faded, the politics it fed did not. The populist parties that rode the pandemic dropped the vaccine talk but have all outlasted it. When Lady Evelyn Beauchamp died...
Firms worked hard to make their supply chains greener. The more urgent threat is the weather now breaking them, and few have a plan for it. Nearly nine in ten (87 per...
Germany showed the world what reuniting a country costs. For Moldova, the road west through Brussels looks cheaper and considerably safer. It’s often said that the...
After Iceland’s European Union referendum, the bloc’s next big enlargement test lies on the Adriatic, where delay carries a strategic cost. Iceland’s rejection of...
A competitive Africa requires functional institutions and modern technology. Not just declarations of intent, but implementation capacity. Africa trades as much as East...
Reykjavik wants the market without the politics. So do Europe’s wealthiest hold-outs, and Britain, above all, ought to be taking note. So Iceland will not be...
Russia’s election fools nobody, which is rather the point. It also hands Putin a stick with which to beat a Ukraine that cannot vote at all. Oh the suspense...
Reform politicians often cite Singapore as a low-tax, small-state model. Many of the city-state’s policies would suit a Green much better. Conservative...