Central and Eastern Europe is becoming Europe’s engine, not its edge. That transition needs a coherent agenda, not mawkish sentimentality. For the better part of...
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Retail apps turned owning shares into a quick phone tap. The money seldom reaches the firms it tracks, and the votes pool in very few hands. Omar Arnaout runs XTB, a...
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...
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...
The EU’s Spring Economic Forecast shows a slowdown in growth as the energy shock drives up inflation and puts new strain on finances. It has not, to say the least...
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...
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...
The Last Word: Companies must change to stay relevant. For years, Bulgaria, Croatia, Poland and Romania have occupied a flattering place in Europe’s economic...
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has turbocharged Poland’s tech sector. Sustaining momentum once the war ends is another matter. Poland, its IT sector at least...
Two megadeals—ElevenLabs and ICEYE—accounted for a significant share, jointly raising over 300 million. Excluding these two transactions, the Polish VC market still grew...
A new World Bank report reveals that Eastern Europe and Central Asia is trading 45 per cent below potential. The reshoring bonanza was supposed to be Central and Eastern...
Poland’s high-speed rail ambitions depend on Brussels opening its wallet. Poland is readying itself to ask the European Union for billions of złoty to build its...
As Brussels loosens the purse strings, defence tech start-ups across emerging Europe eye a windfall. With Russia’s artillery thundering less than 1,000 kilometres...