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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 million US dollars to build data centres near Paris and in Sweden. A month before, he had bought Koyeb, a small Paris Specialist subject was originally published on Emerging Europe.

A partnership between bikes and trains ought to be one of transport’s natural pairings. In many parts of Europe that is no longer the case. A prominent railway campaigner known to this writer has a small travelling ritual. Before boarding some trains, he needs to fold his bicycle, zip it into a black bag and Folded away was originally published on Emerging Europe.

The 21st century will be shaped not only by the rise of Asia, but by regions that connect continents, such as Central and Eastern Europe.   For more than a generation, ‘ASEAN centrality’ has been one of the organising concepts of the Asian Century. It describes the ability of Southeast Asia to position itself at Why CEE is matching ASEAN in centrality was originally published on Emerging Europe.

The best way for investment promotion agencies to reinvent is also the cheapest: place data-driven aftercare at the core of their pitches.  Carolina Arriagada Peters convened the fourth Aftercare Forum in Riga last week, which ran under a banner reading Tech-Powered Aftercare. She has been making the case for years. Her 2022 book, the first Aftercare or guesscare? was originally published on Emerging Europe.

The EU’s biometric frontier is a total mess, and while Brexit hasn’t helped, it is only half the reason. It’s implementation has been poor. On the morning of April 11, border officers at Lisbon, Porto and Faro switched off the European Union’s new Entry/Exit System (EES), let the queues drain, and turned it back on Border line was originally published on Emerging Europe.

Debate around worker compensation focuses on regulation. Far less attention is paid to the technology required to implement fair systems.   The future of work is one of the defining debates of our time. As artificial intelligence transforms labour markets, a central question is emerging: how do we know what work is, who is doing How ambient technology can benefit workers was originally published on Emerging Europe.

The Last Word: Not every graduate role will disappear. The issue is not the end of the junior career, but the need for firms to redesign it. For years, the first rung of professional life was built from work nobody especially loved. Junior bankers checked models. Consultants cleaned slides. Lawyers reviewed documents. Graduates wrote first The first rung is vanishing was originally published on Emerging Europe.

The eDiscovery market remains an American market through 2030, but the international share of worldwide spending is gradually rising. The eDiscovery market is, and remains, an American market. Reconciled estimates place worldwide US spending at approximately 12.94 billion US dollars in 2025 against 6.67 billion US dollars for the rest of the world combined—a 66-to-34 Market Intelligence: Still American, but a little less so was originally published on Emerging Europe.

A discussion that should focus on environmental impact and economic benefits risks becoming a proxy for ideological and cultural anxieties. The controversy current surrounding a proposed luxury tourism development on Albania’s southern coast has been presented largely as a battle between economic development and environmental protection. Critics warn of damage to a sensitive ecosystem near The battle for Albania’s coast was originally published on Emerging Europe.

The European Union has agreed to borrow 150 billion euros to rearm. Unusually, it is mainly the borrowers, not the lenders, who are unhappy. On March 12, Karol Nawrocki, Poland’s newly elected president, took to state television to veto a bill that would have unlocked 43.7 billion euros for the country’s defence ministry. He called Loans of arms was originally published on Emerging Europe.