4+ hour, 35+ min ago  (273+ words) Governments in rich countries are pushing up the cost of hiring despite possible alternatives for raising revenue not being in short supply. Belgium topped the rankings at 52. 5 per cent. Germany sat on 49. 3, France on 47. 2, Austria on 47. 1 and Italy on 45. 8. Colombia…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (318+ words) Andrew Wrobel is the chief reinvention officer at Reinvantage. The Last Word: AI's next battle is not the model, but the organisation. From "What can the model do?' to "What can the organisation absorb?' For the past few years, attention…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago  (835+ words) Emerging Europe 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 Future Growth Project at the Tengiz field in…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago  (853+ words) Emerging Europe Mongolia has a bold plan, a surplus, and good demographics. The economy still runs on copper, however, and the copper boom is part of why. In May 2025, Mongolia's State Training Fund announced a change to the country's overseas-study…...

1+ week, 6+ hour ago  (827+ words) Emerging Europe 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 city for nine years, the…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (674+ words) Emerging Europe The courage to get AI right Andrew Wrobel is the chief reinvention officer at Reinvantage. The Last Word: Leadership alignment, behaviour, and talent matter far more than whether employees are merely experimenting with AI tools. For the past…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (657+ words) Emerging Europe 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 that just over half of EU adults…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (930+ words) Emerging Europe Restrictions on the export of critical raw materials are surging. Producers may regret it, for they deliver revenue, briefly, but then what? Mathias Cormann opened the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Critical Minerals Forum in Istanbul…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (175+ words) Geography is becoming the least interesting barrier between Canada and the European Union. But the maple leaf will never fly over Brussels. This week in Yerevan, Mark Carney took his seat at the eighth summit of the European Political Community,…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (184+ words) The 2026 RSF Index reframes the work of protecting journalists. That headline matters. So does what it implies for the people who never appear in the bylines but who decide whether journalism can continue at all'the cybersecurity engineers, records managers, and…...