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...
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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...
Artificial intelligence is the technology of the moment, and Central and Eastern Europe can meet it as eleven competitors or as one region. Artificial intelligence (AI)...
Fewer than one in seven of Europe’s primary teachers is a man. Governments want to recruit many more of them, but fail to find them. In April of last year, while...
The first thirty-five years of CEE capitalism were about creating wealth. The next thirty-five will reveal whether we can perpetuate it. Central and Eastern Europe has...
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...
The shrinking Danube looks like drought. But draining its wetlands and floodplains left the region far less able to weather what comes next. The exceptionally low water...
Immigrants increasingly back the parties that would have kept them out. The latest arrivals, it seems, are keenest to pull up the ladder. Backed by the hard-right...
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...
Cheap solar and a great wall of EU cash turned the bloc’s poorest member into its battery champion. Its neighbours are left buying power in. Few countries have...
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...
Romania’s stock market is small, unfashionable and, over the past decade, the best-performing in the world. Almost no Romanians own a share. There is, of course...
Ukrainian drones have choked Kazakhstan’s main oil route through Russia. Romania is most exposed, and Astana is now hedging each bet it has. Kassym-Jomart Tokayev...