Climate leadership requires more than just ambition. Targets need to be supported by stable, investor-grade frameworks, says Timur Tillyaev. Europe’s climate credentials...
Tag - Economy & Politics
Tracking the policies and markets shaping emerging Europe and beyond
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...
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...