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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 highlighted the ongoing diversity challenges women face in investing and other male-dominated industries. Investors warn Women founders face struggles in funding was originally published on Emerging Europe.

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 countries across emerging Europe, the Mediterranean, Central Asia, and Estonia retains top spot in expanded IT Competitiveness Index was originally published on Emerging Europe.

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 often treated as a personality trait: countries that are ‘balanced’, ‘constructive’, and ‘multilateral’. That framing is too Convening, corridors, compute was originally published on Emerging Europe.

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 Reference Model (EDRM). Now entering its fifteenth edition, this semi-annual survey continues to serve as a vital benchmark for legal and ComplexDiscovery launches Winter 2026 eDiscovery Pricing Survey was originally published on Emerging Europe.

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 only its military credibility, but its political sovereignty. This is why Europe must treat AI in defence as a strategic imperative was originally published on Emerging Europe.

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 oncologists know instantly whether a healthy organ is receiving too much radiation, and where The reinvention of cancer care was originally published on Emerging Europe.

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 spent three years talking up ‘friend-shoring’ and ‘near-shoring’ as if discovering that Against the TIDES was originally published on Emerging Europe.

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 Azerbaijan have spent much of the past three decades navigating Banking on peace was originally published on Emerging Europe.

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, reveals that GDP growth in the first nine months exceeded expectations. Real Europe’s modest momentum was originally published on Emerging Europe.

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 applied a successful containment strategy to prevent the spread of communism and Kazakhstan’s Abraham moment was originally published on Emerging Europe.