The Last Word: Heat turns assumptions into evidence. The firms that wait for normal to return are confusing relief with genuine readiness. I am writing this from London...
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The business of building a more sustainable future
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...
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...
A partnership between bikes and trains ought to be one of transport’s natural pairings. In many parts of Europe that is no longer the case. A prominent railway...
A discussion that should focus on environmental impact and economic benefits risks becoming a proxy for ideological and cultural anxieties. The controversy current...
Europe is pouring money into the wrong end of its power grid. Distribution grids are what stand between households and cheaper energy bills. In March, Energinet, the...
The trouble with treating FDI inflows as a national report card is that it’s often overly difficult to know what is, and what is not, FDI. In September 2024 the Grand...
The Last Word: Those working on Central and Eastern Europe’s narrative should stop selling what they do, and start selling what they see. Ask a room why the GBS sector...
Replacing GDP targets with wellbeing sounds appealing. Those (very) few countries that have tried it are retreating from the idea, however. Zack Polanski delivered his...
Across the Baltics and the Balkans, shrinking countries are betting everything on one major city. Entire regions risk being left in limbo. Adrian Nikolov of the...
Compliance carbon pricing is broadly working, and revenues are rising. However, the voluntary market that companies relied on is in trouble. Microsoft staff began...
Why mental health has become one of the biggest threats to press freedom, and why journalists increasingly need solid psychological support. For years journalism has...