Europe’s gas infrastructure binge is proving as ill-judged as it was expensive. Europe’s dash to wean itself off Russian pipeline gas has left the continent with an embarrassing surplus of import capacity. After a frenzy of construction that saw 19 liquefied natural gas (LNG) ter … | Continue reading
Brussels hopes a new fund will stop promising tech firms from fleeing to America. Europe has long been plagued by a peculiar malady: it excels at birthing innovative companies but struggles to nurture them into adulthood. On October 29, the European Commission announced yet anoth … | Continue reading
Governments must act now to prevent climate change and digitalisation from deepening inequality. Europe’s governments must act decisively to prevent deeper inequality and wider labour-market mismatches as climate change and digitalisation upend markets and welfare systems over th … | Continue reading
Association to Horizon Europe grants access to the EU’s 93.5 billion euros science programme. Egypt this week became the second African nation to join Horizon Europe, the EU’s multibillion-euro research and innovation programme. The association grants Egyptian researchers, univer … | Continue reading
The strategic role of the Astana Think Tank Forum. The international system today is undergoing its most profound transformation in decades. Global politics is increasingly defined by fragmentation, declining trust, and the erosion of institutions once designed to ensure stabilit … | Continue reading
The region must focus on creating quality jobs to catch up with the EU. Economic growth in the Western Balkans is poised to pick up modestly in 2026 before gaining momentum in 2027, buoyed by stronger exports and investment as global uncertainty recedes. Yet sustaining the region … | Continue reading
At SBC Summit Lisbon 2025, Aff.Tech showcased why it stands as the Affiliate Platform for Champions. Over the three-day event, booth C350 (shared with GR8 Tech) became one of the busiest spots of the exhibition, filled with operators and platform providers eager to discover how A … | Continue reading
GR8 Tech landed heavyweight wins on all fronts at SBC Summit 2025, taking home the prestigious Platform Provider of the Year award and drawing record-breaking crowds with its Heavyweight Club activation with Ready to Fight, which brought undisputed world champion Oleksandr Usyk t … | Continue reading
Entrepreneurship in Eastern Europe has always come with its own set of challenges—regulatory hurdles, unpredictable tax rules, and the constant need to adapt. Over the past year I’ve watched many talented founders stumble on legal and tax nuances, not because their products weren … | Continue reading
We live in an age of constant disruption. Markets shift overnight, technologies leapfrog entire industries, and geopolitics redraw supply chains. For leaders, the question is no longer whether change will come, but whether their organisation is prepared to meet it. That is where … | Continue reading
The wait is over: the Heavyweight Champ is Activated. On September 17, GR8 Tech brings Oleksandr Usyk, undisputed heavyweight champion and co-founder of Ready to Fight, to the stage at SBC Summit 2025 for a full day of heavyweight action. From the Super Stage to the Stand The d … | Continue reading
Boardrooms love the language of change. Over the last twenty years, “transformation” has become a staple of strategy decks and consultant presentations. Digital transformation. Cultural transformation. Agile transformation. The word signals ambition, urgency, and progress. Yet m … | Continue reading
GR8 Tech’s drive-time podcast, Bet It Drives, returns for a high-speed third episode with Rohini Sardana, Founder & CEO of WiseWager Consultancy Ltd. A 20-year veteran in sports, esports, media, and tech innovation, Sardana has been behind some of iGaming’s boldest product launch … | Continue reading
Every organisation knows it needs to change. The harder question is how. Where do you begin? How do you ensure that change is not just cosmetic but lasting? At Reinvantage, we developed the 4Rs of Reinvention as a practical framework to guide leaders through this process. Simple … | Continue reading
After launching Bet It Drives with Alex Pratt’s high-octane debut, GR8 Tech’s drive-time podcast shifts gears for Episode 2 with Helen Walton, Founder and Chief Commercial Officer of G.Games—a creative force who went from global cosmetics to multiplayer slots without touching the … | Continue reading
iGaming just got a new ride. Bet It Drives, GR8 Tech’s new podcast, takes the industry’s most interesting voices out of the studio and into the fast lane. Hosted by Yevhen Krazhan, CSO, each episode is filmed entirely in a moving car, with cameras rolling and London as the backdr … | Continue reading
GR8 Tech is bringing the fight to SBC Lisbon 2025 with a clear mission: Activate the Heavyweight. Building on the momentum of its Heavyweight Club, GR8 Tech will showcase how elite operators turn ambition into measurable results: through mindset, execution, and technology that wi … | Continue reading
GR8 Tech has rolled out CRM Bonus Shop—a fully integrated player-facing feature designed to drive engagement, increase retention, and optimise bonus budgets through gamified rewards. The Bonus Shop enables operators to offer various virtual and real rewards, including free spins, … | Continue reading
Over the past five years, the Republic of Moldova has strengthened its position on the international map in two strategically important sectors — medical and educational tourism. An increasing number of international patients are choosing to travel for high-quality treatments at … | Continue reading
Amid a steady increase in the number of tourists, business travelers, and passengers transiting through Chișinău International Airport (RMO)—ranked third in Europe among airports with annual traffic between one and 10 million passengers — investments in the HORECA sector are gain … | Continue reading
After CRM and UBO series, GR8 Tech is back with a powerful five-episode deep dive into AI. The series shows how GR8 Tech’s AI technology solves operator challenges, from boosting engagement and personalizing player journeys to strengthening fraud prevention and simplifying sports … | Continue reading
Discover Moldova’s economic opportunities at the country’s leading economic forum. Invest Moldova Agency invites business leaders, investors, business associations, public and private partners to the tenth edition of Moldova Business Week—the country’s most important economic for … | Continue reading
When ESPN Bet crashed during 26 per cent of March Madness game time, it proved what heavyweight operators already know: that level of downtime is unthinkable—and expensive. When you’re processing millions of bets during a single event, every second of uptime and every millisecond … | Continue reading
The iGaming industry got a taste of heavyweight ambition at iGB L!VE London 2025, where GR8 Tech unveiled its Heavyweight Club—an exclusive community that takes domination in iGaming markets as seriously as world champion Oleksandr Usyk takes defending his undisputed heavyweight … | Continue reading
As global industries increasingly turn to creativity as a growth driver, Moldova is quietly emerging as one of Eastern Europe’s most dynamic and resilient hubs for creative services. With a growing ecosystem of over 2,700 companies and more than 13,000 professionals—and a 16 per … | Continue reading
In 2024, renewable energy production in the Republic of Moldova doubled compared to the previous year, marking significant progress in the country’s transition toward a more diversified and resilient energy infrastructure. Against this backdrop, Moldova has launched its first maj … | Continue reading
GR8 Tech debuts its limited-edition sports apparel and accessories drop: Fight for Greatness. Inspired by the champion mentality of Oleksandr Usyk and his Ready to Fight platform, the collection channels the same high-performance culture of those who thrive under pressure, move w … | Continue reading
The Republic of Moldova has reached a historic milestone, ranking seventh globally in the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index 2025—its first time ever in the top 10. This remarkable achievement places Moldova among the world’s leaders in gender equality, ahead of advan … | Continue reading
GR8 Tech is stepping into the ring at booth U34 at iGB L!VE London 2025 with a message that pulls no punches: The Heavyweight Club is where the next champions of iGaming are forged. GR8 Tech’s presence at the upcoming event is inspired by the relentless spirit of world heavyweigh … | Continue reading
Push-ups in parks, plank jacks in playgrounds, burpees in boardrooms—with the launch of the #SelfPerformanceChallenge, GR8 Tech and Ready to Fight turned LinkedIn into a high-performance fitness arena, and the iGaming industry rose to the challenge. Several dozen professionals, f … | Continue reading
Digitalisation alone won’t make Kazakhstan a tech powerhouse. But when combined with clear strategy, cross-sector collaboration, and openness to global standards, it can become a blueprint. When Kazakhstan declared independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, it inherited vast oil … | Continue reading
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, I had the chance to open the CX Outsourcers Mindshare event in Munich. I didn’t begin with a forecast … | Continue reading
This event celebrated the successful completion of a comprehensive capacity-building journey for Georgian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), carried out by the Visionest Institute as a contractor for ESTDEV. The programme aimed to enhance the international competitiveness … | Continue reading
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 mission: undermining the authoritarian regimes that threaten their homelands. The work done behind the … | Continue reading
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 the Deutsche Mark and later to its successor). Yet despite this long monetary engagement, the actual wedding d … | Continue reading
GR8 Tech has released a five-step guide for its ULTIM8 Sportsbook iFrame, giving a clearer look at what it takes to integrate one of the market’s most customisable and secure iFrame sportsbooks. ULTIM8 Sportsbook iFrame delivers what matters most: content for different target geo … | Continue reading
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 years into Russia’s invasion, the country’s economy has demonstrated remarkable resilience, growing by 2.9 … | Continue reading
Imagine a future where machines help detect diseases earlier than ever, where clinicians are no longer burdened with fragmented systems, and where AI not only supports diagnoses but predicts illness before symptoms arise. For GE Healthcare, this vision is fast becoming reality. A … | Continue reading
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 as a pacifist who “blogged about sport and had never held a gun in his life” before Russia launched its assault on … | Continue reading
A new book documents the quiet reinvention of Ukrainian women amid Russia's invasion. Ordinarily Unusual: A new portrait of Ukrainian women at war was originally published on Emerging Europe. | Continue reading
The GovTech revolution offers a vision not of more government, nor less government, but smarter government. The Silicon State: How GovTech is reinventing public services was originally published on Emerging Europe. | Continue reading
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 harder, quieter part of reinvention is not what we build. It’s what we leave behind. Letting go isn’t dramati … | Continue reading
The legacy of the recent Samarkand Summit lies in the practical implementation of its decisions: investments that create jobs, educational exchanges that build capacity, energy partnerships that support sustainability, and reforms that promote human dignity and opportunity. On Ap … | Continue reading
The double myth that the current Ukrainian government is illegitimate and that fast elections are necessary to end the fighting was created in Moscow. Among the many oddities of the new US approach to the Russian-Ukrainian war is the assumption that early elections in Ukraine cou … | Continue reading
The labour market is evolving at breakneck speed with the shift from physical to knowledge work. These developments mean that regulators and decision-makers must put in place guardrails but also allow the future of work to flourish. In 1975, the chess world champion Bobby Fischer … | Continue reading
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 an existential challenge. The financing models that sustained generous social safety nets throughout the post-war era are … | Continue reading
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 suspended animation. The shock victory of an unknown ultranationalist, Călin Georgescu, in the first round of a presidential … | Continue reading
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 a quiet manifesto on how to live with purpose. Self-Reliance, published in 1841, is a … | Continue reading