Fifteenth edition of the Pricing Pulse documents a market stabilising in traditional service categories while fragmenting around generative AI-assisted review—with direct implications for budgeting, vendor selection, and matter economics. ComplexDiscovery OÜ, in partnership with … | Continue reading
Turkish Airlines is currently the biggest winner of the US and Israeli war on Iran. The airline disruption caused by the US and Israeli war on Iran is enormous. Emirates, Etihad and Qatar Airways, hitherto the holy trinity of East-West transit, have been hamstrung by attacks on t … | Continue reading
The productivity gap that Central Europe can no longer ignore. For three decades, Central and Eastern Europe had a growth model that worked. Low(er) labour costs, proximity to Western markets, and a steady flow of EU structural funds drew foreign factories and investment. Incomes … | Continue reading
The AI literacy gap is now a security and compliance liability. The vulnerability didn’t announce itself. It arrived quietly—in employees feeding confidential documents into unauthorised chatbots, in courtrooms demanding accountability for AI-generated legal submissions, and in s … | Continue reading
Hungary’s opposition leads by double digits. The system Orbán built may yet save him. Péter Magyar (pictured above, in the white shirt) has not always been the leader of Hungary’s opposition. A former member of Hungary’s governing party Fidesz and the ex-husband of former justice … | Continue reading
Albania’s coders are plugging Germany’s tech talent gap. Christian Dölker, a German entrepreneur based in Tirana, has spent the past three years persuading German companies that Albania’s IT sector is a serious nearshoring destination. His firm, Hyretech, has signed up clients in … | Continue reading
Europe and Central Asia’s women are better educated than its men. Getting a decent job is another matter. In many countries across Europe and Central Asia, women now outperform men at university. They enrol in higher numbers, they graduate in higher numbers, and in some cases the … | Continue reading
Lithuania’s start-up scene is driving the country’s economy forwards. In Lithuania there is a saying: “I trust the next chapter, because I am the author.” This mentality and desire to solve problems, find solutions and create companies is alive and well in the burgeoning Lithuani … | Continue reading
An international investor reflects on Spain’s strategic role at the intersection of policy, capital and energy transition. As a foreign investor in the European energy transition, Spain is impossible to ignore. The country’s rapid adoption of renewable energy has attracted signif … | Continue reading
Ulaanbaatar has digitised government services impressively. Building an export-oriented IT sector is another matter. Mongolia has achieved something remarkable: it has leapfrogged directly to digital governance without first building the underlying tech sector one might expect to … | Continue reading
AI ethics collide with national security. The showdown between Anthropic and the US government began as a contract negotiation and has quickly turned into a test case for how far Washington will push commercial AI developers in the name of national security—and how hard a leading … | Continue reading
Ukraine’s reconstruction bill has reached 588 billion US dollars. There was, predictably and with good reason, a glut of articles in the global press last week marking the four years since Russia began its brutal full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Most focused on Ukraine’s remarkabl … | Continue reading
Europe risks widening space gap despite investment rebound. Growing defence spending, Europe’s push for greater strategic resilience amid shifting US policy, and increasing demand for commercial space applications are creating new opportunities for European start-ups. However, Eu … | Continue reading
Baltic VCs partner to fuel 100 new start-ups. Who do these kids think they are, dropping out of college, vibecoding, and starting tech companies before they’re 25? Apparently, they think they’re the next unicorns, and they may be right. According to a recent report, the average a … | Continue reading
Albania’s IT sector has built a credible nearshoring proposition, with over 21,000 professionals delivering software development, QA, DevOps, and UI/UX services to Western European clients. IT services exports reached 221.5 million euros in 2024, and the sector is moving beyond s … | Continue reading
With three unicorns and the region’s best business environment, Lithuania rivals much larger economies. Lithuania does not accept mediocrity. With barely 2.8 million people, the country has produced three unicorns—Vinted, Baltic Classifieds Group, and Nord Security—and hosts over … | Continue reading
The auto parts aftermarket is thriving on Europe’s ageing fleet, and the EV transition might only make it stronger. A mechanic with a Volkswagen on the lift cannot wait three weeks for a brake disc. That simple truth has made Armtek, a distributor founded by brothers Vadim and Ol … | Continue reading
EDPB and EDPS weigh in on the Digital Omnibus. The European Union’s move to modernise its digital legal framework is currently centered on the Digital Omnibus, a legislative package aimed at reducing administrative burdens and enhancing the continent’s economic competitiveness. I … | Continue reading
The Fourth Law secures strategic investment to accelerate drone AI development for Ukraine. The Fourth Law (TFL), a Kyiv-headquartered defence technology company, has secured a new round of funding backed by Axon, the American public safety technology group. TFL builds AI and rob … | Continue reading
How Tbilisi threw away its greatest strategic asset. For three decades, Georgia held a geographic trump card (no pun intended) that no amount of money could buy. It was the only country connecting Europe to Central Asia that did not involve crossing Russian or Iranian territory. … | Continue reading
CEOs in Central and Eastern Europe are focussing on short-term growth, PwC’s latest survey finds. CEOs in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) are showing renewed short-term confidence in revenue growth, bucking a global trend of declining CEO optimism. But there’s more caution over … | Continue reading
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