Two unicorns and a growing tech sector suggest the country means business. Gaps remain. Croatia has produced something rare in the Balkans: two genuine unicorns. Infobip, the communications platform, and Rimac Automobili, the electric hypercar manufacturer, have put the country o … | Continue reading
Finland’s strategic play for the global tech elite. The relentless engine of Silicon Valley is beginning to sputter as a new generation of artificial intelligence experts looks toward the horizon for something more durable than the next sprint. Finland has answered this call with … | Continue reading
Boosting business productivity and addressing fiscal pressures would unlock stronger and more resilient growth in Bulgaria. Bulgaria has been closing the income gap with wealthier European economies. Policy reforms, EU integration and macroeconomic stability have delivered steady … | Continue reading
The dominance of AI and defence investments point to a maturing, more focused regional ecosystem. Baltic start-up funding rose in 2025, with total venture capital deployed in Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia start-ups reaching 607 million euros, up from 505 million euros in 2024. T … | Continue reading
Competition from China and the switch to electric vehicles is transforming Europe’s auto parts industry. When we think of Europe’s car industry, robotic arms and gleaming production lines come to mind. But behind the headlines lies another story: the ‘aftermarket’ auto parts sect … | Continue reading
Two megadeals—ElevenLabs and ICEYE—accounted for a significant share, jointly raising over 300 million. Excluding these two transactions, the Polish VC market still grew by 28 per cent year-on-year. Poland’s venture capital market raised 797 million euros across 183 transactions … | Continue reading
Russian emigration turbocharged the country’s tech scene. The trick now is keeping it going. Armenia stumbled into geopolitical fortune. When Moscow launched its war in Ukraine in 2022, educated Russians—particularly IT specialists—fled to avoid mobilisation or express opposition … | Continue reading
Estonia’s bold bet on the artificial intelligence frontier. The digital heartbeat of the Baltic region is accelerating toward a future where every keystroke and administrative decision is augmented by machine intelligence. On January 27, 2026, the Estonian government formally lau … | Continue reading
Brussels is financing infrastructure in the Western Balkans. EU membership is another matter. On the outskirts of Tirana, diggers are preparing the ground for what will become an electrified railway line linking Albania’s capital to its main port. In North Macedonia, classrooms a … | Continue reading
Why most industrial AI experiments fail—and how to fix them. Nearly nine in ten organisations worldwide now deploy artificial intelligence in at least one business function. Yet precious few have managed to embed it in core industrial operations. The problem is not the technology … | Continue reading
The evidence problem of Europe’s AI-powered warfare Drones no longer need human pilots to find their targets—and that reality has arrived faster than most legal and compliance teams anticipated. Across Estonia’s foggy forests and Germany’s high-tech manufacturing floors, a new ge … | Continue reading
Women remain underrepresented at all levels of the corporate ladder, particularly in senior leadership roles. A recent lawsuit, in which a former president at Insight Partners, a major VC firm, sued the company for gender discrimination and other workplace misconduct, has highlig … | Continue reading
Estonia has claimed its third consecutive victory in the Reinvantage IT Competitiveness Index, scoring 65.45 points from a possible 100 and reinforcing its position as a digital leader. The Baltic nation of 1.4 million people tops a field that has expanded this year to include 32 … | Continue reading
Estonia has claimed its third consecutive victory in the Reinvantage IT Competitiveness Index, scoring 65.45 points from a possible 100 and reinforcing its position as a digital leader. The Baltic nation of 1.4 million people tops a field that has expanded this year to include 32 … | Continue reading
Kazakhstan is writing a new middle-power playbook. In a world that is fragmenting into blocs—trade wars, sanctions, technology controls, and a widening gap between security competition and economic interdependence—‘middle powers’ are suddenly fashionable again. But the label is o … | Continue reading
Kazakhstan is writing a new middle-power playbook. In a world that is fragmenting into blocs—trade wars, sanctions, technology controls, and a widening gap between security competition and economic interdependence—‘middle powers’ are suddenly fashionable again. But the label is o … | Continue reading
ComplexDiscovery, a leading independent digital publication providing insights on cybersecurity, data privacy, regulatory compliance, and eDiscovery, today announced the launch of its Winter 2026 eDiscovery Pricing Survey, developed in partnership with the Electronic Discovery Re … | Continue reading
ComplexDiscovery, a leading independent digital publication providing insights on cybersecurity, data privacy, regulatory compliance, and eDiscovery, today announced the launch of its Winter 2026 eDiscovery Pricing Survey, developed in partnership with the Electronic Discovery Re … | Continue reading
Artificial intelligence has moved from the margins of defence planning to its centre. It now shapes how armed forces see, decide and act. For Europe, this shift comes at a moment of heightened insecurity and strategic uncertainty. How the continent responds will determine not onl … | Continue reading
Artificial intelligence has moved from the margins of defence planning to its centre. It now shapes how armed forces see, decide and act. For Europe, this shift comes at a moment of heightened insecurity and strategic uncertainty. How the continent responds will determine not onl … | Continue reading
BrachDOSE, real-time radiation data, and the rise of Baltic medtech. Imagine cancer treatment where radiation exposure is no longer estimated, inferred or reconstructed after the fact, but measured in real time — inside the patient’s body, during the procedure itself. Where oncol … | Continue reading
BrachDOSE, real-time radiation data, and the rise of Baltic medtech. Imagine cancer treatment where radiation exposure is no longer estimated, inferred or reconstructed after the fact, but measured in real time — inside the patient’s body, during the procedure itself. Where oncol … | Continue reading
A new World Bank report reveals that Eastern Europe and Central Asia is trading 45 per cent below potential. The reshoring bonanza was supposed to be Central and Eastern Europe’s moment. Western multinationals, spooked by Chinese supply chains and Ukrainian grain corridors, have … | Continue reading
A new World Bank report reveals that Eastern Europe and Central Asia is trading 45 per cent below potential. The reshoring bonanza was supposed to be Central and Eastern Europe’s moment. Western multinationals, spooked by Chinese supply chains and Ukrainian grain corridors, have … | Continue reading
A new study suggests the South Caucasus’s banking transformation has less to do with who’s winning now than who might win tomorrow. The South Caucasus has rarely been mistaken for a banking paradise. Wedged between Russia, Turkey and Iran, the trio of Armenia, Georgia and Azerbai … | Continue reading
A new study suggests the South Caucasus’s banking transformation has less to do with who’s winning now than who might win tomorrow. The South Caucasus has rarely been mistaken for a banking paradise. Wedged between Russia, Turkey and Iran, the trio of Armenia, Georgia and Azerbai … | Continue reading
The EU economy defies gloom, but hardly inspires euphoria. For an economy that spent much of the past three years staggering from one crisis to another, Europe’s performance in 2025 has been surprisingly robust. The European Commission’s autumn forecast, published on November 17, … | Continue reading
The EU economy defies gloom, but hardly inspires euphoria. For an economy that spent much of the past three years staggering from one crisis to another, Europe’s performance in 2025 has been surprisingly robust. The European Commission’s autumn forecast, published on November 17, … | Continue reading
Central Asia’s pivot to Israel signals a broader realignment in Eurasia. Kazakhstan’s recent decision to join the Abraham Accords may represent the start of a transformation, not only for Israel but for two crucial regions of Eurasia. During the Cold War, America and its allies a … | Continue reading
Central Asia’s pivot to Israel signals a broader realignment in Eurasia. Kazakhstan’s recent decision to join the Abraham Accords may represent the start of a transformation, not only for Israel but for two crucial regions of Eurasia. During the Cold War, America and its allies a … | Continue reading
Poland’s high-speed rail ambitions depend on Brussels opening its wallet. Poland is readying itself to ask the European Union for billions of złoty to build its first proper high-speed railway line. The supplicant is Centralny Port Komunikacyjny (CPK), a state-owned vehicle taske … | Continue reading
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