New UNFPA data suggests young people in Eastern Europe and Central Asia have not given up on children, but life keeps getting in the way. Young people across Eastern...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
Ukraine and Moldova have opened the first of six EU accession clusters. The euphoria is understandable, but the road to Brussels is long. On June 11, Marta Kos, the...
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 European Union has agreed to borrow 150 billion euros to rearm. Unusually, it is mainly the borrowers, not the lenders, who are unhappy. On March 12, Karol Nawrocki...
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...
Europe throws billions at its defence sector. Ukraine’s kitchen-table innovators are already cashing in. Great news for Ukrainian housewives. The European Commission...