Emerging Europe

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, Poland’s newly elected president, took to state television to

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 operator of the Danish grid,

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 Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union

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 in Central and Eastern Europe w...

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