Some ‘sovereigntists’ in the EU dream of an alternative to Brussels, but even Russia admits that BRICS cannot yet provide ...

The smartest technology acts before a crisis. Prevention is the next frontier of reinvention, changing the timing of action.

The Iran war has left Central Europe's growth largely intact, but inflation is sticking, Ukraine is battered and Russia is ...

Russians have created a new market,  from intermediaries promising to locate missing soldiers to scammers hunting for ...

The memory crunch is a fab story. The quieter squeeze, one step later, in advanced packaging, runs through a few makers of ...

Few countries succeed as discreetly as Slovenia does. The low profile rather flatters the place, but capital follows ...

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.

Spain is regularising half a million migrants as other governments shut the door. The backlash at home has been milder than ...

No, one more lane will not make any difference: widening roads remains a fool’s errand. Cities that price driving honestly get fewer cars. Gilles Duranton and Matthew Turner published the canonical ...

Kazakhstan’s economy is growing at a decent rate, but its workforce is not. Schools, vocational training, and adult skills must be improved. In January 2025, Chevron announced first oil from the ...

As bilateral aid retreats, the world’s development banks are reaching further than ever. Their critics worry that they have lost the plot. In London in mid-May 2025, at its first Annual Meeting in the ...

Half of Europeans never use public transport. Freebies are an easy answer, but as some countries have found out, they don’t ease congestion. Eurostat published a transport snapshot in March showing ...