May 23, 2025
From Central Asia's parched steppes to North Africa's desiccated plains, necessity is mothering a remarkable economic reinvention.
May 23, 2025
Moldova is no longer just a place to leave. It’s becoming a platform to grow.
May 23, 2025
Ukraine's first Gender Equality Index reveals both progress and persistent gaps in a society being forcibly reinvented by conflict.
May 18, 2025
We’ve spent decades optimising, streamlining, and redesigning customer experiences. But what if all this refinement is simply polishing an outdated model? A couple of weeks ago, […]
May 16, 2025
In Belarus, hackers operate with surgical precision and intense secrecy. In Ukraine, they unleash digital ‘guns blazing’ attacks. Yet both cyber resistance groups share a common […]
May 15, 2025
Bulgaria’s journey to the eurozone faces political hurdles, but economic gains beckon. Bulgaria’s currency, the lev, has been pegged to the euro since 1997 (initially to […]
May 15, 2025
Despite Russia’s brutal invasion, Ukraine’s economy forges ahead. There may be stalemate on the battlefield, but on the economic front, Ukraine is advancing. More than three […]
May 14, 2025
Andrii Senkiv’s commitment to his country, like his loyalty to his favourite football clubs, runs deep. In a March 2022 Reuters article, Andrii Senkiv was described […]
May 13, 2025
A new book documents the quiet reinvention of Ukrainian women amid Russia’s invasion. When war erupts, public attention typically fixates on frontline battles, geopolitical manoeuvres and […]
May 12, 2025
The GovTech revolution offers a vision not of more government, nor less government, but smarter government—one that leverages private sector innovation to deliver public value more […]
May 11, 2025
Reinvention isn’t always a pivot. Sometimes, it’s a release. We often talk about reinvention as a process of building—new systems, new strategies, new directions. But the […]
May 6, 2025
An ageing continent must find new financing models in era of digital and climate transformation. Europe’s welfare states, long the envy of the world, now face […]
May 5, 2025
In 1989, Romanians paid with their lives to escape dictatorship. Now they risk sleepwalking into isolation. For six months, Romania has lived in a state of […]
May 4, 2025
Reinvention isn’t about becoming someone new. It’s about becoming more fully yourself—again and again. Long before ‘personal branding’ or ‘resilience’ became buzzwords, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote […]
May 2, 2025
As Europe scrambles to bolster its defence capabilities, Lithuania’s capital is betting that the shortest path to security runs through the stars. When we think of […]
May 1, 2025
In a dramatic pivot from decades of economic isolation, Uzbekistan has placed 1.68 billion US dollars worth of state assets into foreign hands. Uzbekistan this week […]
April 30, 2025
Economic growth on par with the industrial revolution of the 19th century may be within reach, according to new research. Yet this technological bounty comes with […]
April 29, 2025
Despite global trade tensions and manufacturing slowdown in Germany, Central and Eastern European economies demonstrate remarkable resilience with growth projections significantly outpacing the euro area. Donald […]
April 29, 2025
Kosovo has already defied sceptics by building a functioning economy despite extraordinary challenges. The question now is whether it can move beyond mere resilience to true […]
April 28, 2025
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 from Warsaw, the […]
April 27, 2025
Disruption is no longer a series of events; it’s a condition. And while most people recognise that change is constant, fewer are equipped to work with […]
April 25, 2025
From mental health to futuristic operating tables—Moldova is attracting foreigners and daring to change the usual way of treating brain tumours.
April 24, 2025
After weathering recent global challenges with a steady 3.6 per cent growth in 2024, economies across Europe and Central Asia now face a sharp slowdown to […]
April 23, 2025
While tourists still flock to Croatia and Slovenia’s picturesque coastlines, a less visible invasion is underway. Data centres—the factories of the digital age—are staking their claim […]
April 22, 2025
It’s time to dust off the Danube‑Black Sea Canal and make it the continent’s greenest freight superhighway.
April 21, 2025
Ministers clink glasses every time a multinational lands in Central and Eastern Europe. But it's time the region stopped chasing headlines and started backing the family bakeries, tool shops and start-ups that truly keep the lights on.
April 20, 2025
Real growth often begins the moment you allow yourself to be inconsistent—loudly, deliberately, and unapologetically.
April 17, 2025
Demographic decline—an increasing problem across much of CEE and the Baltics—need not signal permanent retreat. Rather, it offers the perfect moment for reinvention.
April 16, 2025
CEE’s rapid embrace of RegTech offers a glimpse of a future where regulation is not a hindrance to progress but a catalyst for innovation and economic […]
April 14, 2025
While remittances, hydropower schemes, and fields have long defined Tajikistan’s economy, the writing on the wall is clear—reinvention is needed.