Britain spent two decades holding the EU’s door open for CEE, and the region now has every reason to hold it open in return. British Euroscepticism existed long...
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The CEE Leadership Upgrade: The Business Pillar. Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) has learned how to build successful companies. Now it has to learn how to build global...
The CEE Leadership Upgrade: The Political Pillar. Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) has become very good at managing problems. It is far less good at imagining its future...
Methodology this year favours reinvention: a response to the limits, increasingly visible, of traditional investment promotion practices. We have once again ranked the...
Georgia and Armenia outrank most of the EU’s East on economic freedom. Membership need not change that. On October 12 Ursula von der Leyen asked EU leaders to sign...
Post-Brexit, millions of young Europeans want an English-taught degree. Central and Eastern Europe’s universities have an opportunity. In the often fierce but...
Too many states greet every unicorn as a national triumph. However, the louder a country cheers a start-up, the smaller it starts to sound. There’s no doubt that...
From catching up to shaping Europe: Five strategic resets, and a 5C Framework for winning the Second Age of Leadership in emerging Europe. For thirty years, Central and...
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...
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...
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...
Malta has handed every citizen a free ChatGPT Plus account. Other countries will be more than interested in the results of the experiment. Ian Borg, Malta’s...
Growth in CEE is so far holding up against the Iran energy shock. But the extended-workbench model is faltering. Growth across most of the economies of Central, East and...