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...
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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...
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...