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 ...

Brutal regimes rarely want for trading partners. The Taliban are only the latest to find that strategy and commerce outlast moral objection. In October 2025 Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, Turkmenistan’s ...

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 ...

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

Before we start using and teaching AI in schools, perhaps we should ourselves learn more about what exactly we want to ...

Artificial intelligence now turns the lone founder into a credible rival to the corporation, and the steady salaried job into a riskier bet. In February 2025 Maor Shlomo, a programmer in Tel Aviv, put ...

Demand for a few, highly advanced technology skills is surging while Europe’s wider IT employment market softens. How to square the circle? In March 2026 Arthur Mensch, who runs Mistral AI, raised 830 ...

Radu Magdin is a global analyst and consultant, and former prime ministerial advisor in Romania and Moldova. The 21st century will be shaped not only by the rise of Asia, but by regions that connect ...