Going round in circles
Poorer countries are building circular economies as engines of growth
Preparing for uncertainty
Europe is recalibrating how its security, industry and alliances fit together
Degrees of success
Why students should stop obsessing over their degree choice
Chalk and awe
Europe's teacher crisis won't be solved with salary bumps alone
Wired but withering
Broadband promises to save rural villages. The evidence suggests otherwise
The new geography of thought
Countries once associated with tourism and agriculture have pivoted to knowledge-intensive services
Can microfinance reinvent itself?
Why entrepreneurship needs more than money—and what that means for lending
Talking COP
Thirty years of climate summits. The planet keeps warming. Is anyone listening?
Reinventing the five-year-plan
Market economies are embracing what communism made toxic
Fool’s gold
Romania wants to sell residence permits just as Europe discovers why that's a terrible idea
Tomorrow’s workers today
The jobs of the immediate future are here. Are workers ready?
Show, don’t tell
The days when a pitch deck and a smile could secure pre-seed funding are over
The part-time reinvention
Side hustlers are proving that reinvention need not involve venture capital
The AI mirage
Siloed organisations need structural reform, not integration middleware
The extra day dividend
Business travellers who linger achieve more
Neighbourhood watch
The EU's grip on its backyard is slipping, but unevenly
Counting troubles
Why national statistics are often as comparable as apples and oranges
The credential arms race
A surfeit of qualifications has made education a positional good
Present and incorrect
Companies demanding workers return to the office are missing the point
Brussels bytes
How Europe plans to regulate its way to AI supremacy
Rethinking taxation
Or, why taxing baby food might not be such a bad idea
The middleman’s revenge
The internet has failed to deliver the disintermediation it promised
Fields of dreams
How precision agriculture conquered the Central Asian steppes
The AI divide
The technology meant to democratise the world could end up dividing it
Reinventing retirement
How to reinvent pension systems before demographics demolish them
Swipe right for profit
Social isolation is an increasingly lucrative business
Small change
Cashless societies are the future—whether we like it or not
The art of the bad deal
Europe's surrender to Donald Trump is bad for both sides of the Atlantic
How not to run a country
Years of populism have left Hungary poorer, more corrupt, and vulnerable
Drones, dollars, defence
Ukraine's battlefield innovations are attracting serious money
Release valve
Press releases are more vital for corporate communication than ever
Route awakening
How feasible is the Zangezur Corridor, and who will control it?
Wings and prayers
LOT's success exposes Tarom's failures
From pariah to profit
Defence investment in Europe is reinventing financial orthodoxies
Open source secrets
Copy and paste prosperity
Drying times
A global reckoning with drought's mounting toll
Digital Darwinism
Why copying Silicon Valley is the surest path to irrelevance
From Icarus to Phoenix
The Greek economy flew too close to the sun, crashed, and emerged reborn
Steppe change
Mongolia is betting its future on copper
Ukraine’s gender reinvention
Ukraine's first Gender Equality Index reveals both progress and persistent gaps in society
The economics of defiance
Despite Russia's brutal invasion, Ukraine's economy forges ahead
Eastern Europe likely to weather tariff storm
CEE economies can boast growth projections that significantly outpace the euro area
Pivoting towards security
In tech parks from Kyiv to Kraków, start-ups are designing drones and cyber defences
In the know
CEE's business leaders are increasingly aware of the need for reinvention
From coal mines to creative hubs
Eastern European cities are reinventing urban transformation
From smokestacks to servers
Stara Zagora is changing, from a coal-mining stronghold into an emerging IT hub
Capital flight, eastern edition
What's behind the sharp decline in foreign direct investment in Eastern Europe?
A green wake-up call for Bosnia
The country risks falling further behind unless it embraces climate investment now
Economy in focus: Kazakhstan
If Astana is to compete globally, it needs a smarter, more diverse economy
The climate cost of inaction
Without urgent investment, Skopje faces serious problems
Policy paralysis meets climate crisis
Without smarter frameworks, CEE risks falling behind
Birth of a nation
Kosovo: Five essential reads
Hidden Europe
Five essential reads to accompany you on your travels through Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia
But who will pay?
The cost of Ukraine's reconstruction is approaching 500 billion US dollars
Economy in focus: Czechia
Czechia, as with the CEE region as a whole, urgently needs a new growth model
The great rebound
Why Central Europe's economic recovery is gathering steam