Southeast Europe Data
Depending on the point of view, but we like it all from Istanbul to Ljubljana.
Current platform capacity in Slovenia, Croatia & Serbia:
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If it wasn’t real it would be a cartoon:
- Moving North Macedonia’s economy up the value chain
on October 6, 2026North Macedonia can accelerate growth and create more and better-paid jobs with the right reforms. A targeted set of reforms, focused on strengthening governance, unlocking the potential of private enterprise, and building the skills of workers, particularly young people, could help North Macedonia accelerate economic growth, create thousands of new jobs, and raise living standards Moving North Macedonia’s economy up the value chain was originally published on Emerging Europe.
- Europe’s fastest-growing start-up ecosystem is Moldova
on October 5, 2026StartupBlink’s 2026 Global Startup Ecosystem Index recorded 91.9 per cent growth in Moldova, the highest in Europe and third-highest worldwide. It may still only be ranked 82nd globally and 21st in Eastern Europe, but Moldova’s start-up ecosystem is growing fast. According to StartupBlink, Moldova’s population-adjusted Global Startup Ecosystem Index score increased by 91.9 per cent Europe’s fastest-growing start-up ecosystem is Moldova was originally published on Emerging Europe.
- Safety in numbers
on October 2, 2026As Washington raises its tariff walls, Brussels keeps collecting trade partners, and rebranding free trade as self-defence. The European Commission brought its interim agreement with the four Mercosur countries into force on May 1, after Argentina and Uruguay ratified it and a negotiation that had run for a quarter of a century finally closed. Fredrik Safety in numbers was originally published on Emerging Europe.
- Absent teachers
on September 30, 2026Teacher shortages are putting pressure on education systems across the OECD. Teacher shortages affect most OECD education systems to varying degrees, with recruitment challenges particularly acute in mathematics and science, as well as in rural, remote and disadvantaged communities, according to a new report. Education at a Glance 2026, the OECD’s annual compendium of comparable Absent teachers was originally published on Emerging Europe.
- Europe is an adjective, not a map
on September 30, 2026A structured, transparent framework for ‘associate membership’ can give CEE and its neighbours a concrete pathway for market access, research, and industrial cooperation without weakening EU standards. Ursula von der Leyen’s proposal to make Canada the EU’s first ‘associate member’ made headlines around the world, although nobody in Brussels seemed able to explain what the Europe is an adjective, not a map was originally published on Emerging Europe.
- Pioneering the CEE–India–Brazil triangle
on September 28, 2026Why three regions that believe in their future should discover each other now. Walk through São Paulo, Mumbai or Bucharest and, beneath the obvious differences, you feel the same thing: ambition, expressed less as the performative optimism of a conference stage than as the working assumption, held by ordinary people, that tomorrow can be bigger Pioneering the CEE–India–Brazil triangle was originally published on Emerging Europe.
- Meet in the middle
on September 28, 2026Trans-Caspian Transport Corridor investments could spur growth and create millions of jobs Across Europe and Central Asia. Countries in Europe and Central Asia could unlock faster growth, more jobs, and stronger private investment by upgrading and better integrating a critical trade route linking East Asia, Central Asia, the South Caucasus, Türkiye, and the rest of Meet in the middle was originally published on Emerging Europe.
- The hiring mistake nobody notices they’re making
on September 25, 2026Imagining a hiring manager going through a pile of CVs for a mid-level marketing role. A job applicant from France has listed their date of birth and marital status near the top of the page. Another, applying from Germany, has attached a photo and included two pages of academic transcripts. A third applicant, who comes The hiring mistake nobody notices they’re making was originally published on Emerging Europe.
- Brussels has seen the light on electric cars
on September 24, 2026The European Commission now says plainly that electric cars make Europe more secure, not just greener. Yet its policies still too often treat energy security as an afterthought. At the Paris World Exhibition of 1900, visitors could inspect an engine built to Rudolf Diesel’s design by the French Otto company. It ran on peanut oil. Brussels has seen the light on electric cars was originally published on Emerging Europe.
- The future will not fit your risk register
on September 20, 2026The Last Word: When disruption multiplies faster than organisations can catalogue it, the advantage shifts from predicting what comes next to being able to move when it arrives. If 2026 already feels volatile, keep some space on the risk register. The years ahead are unlikely to become more obliging. Geopolitical fragmentation, cyber insecurity, climate volatility, The future will not fit your risk register was originally published on Emerging Europe.
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