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 ...

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 ...

The first significant Russian strategic defeat as a direct consequence of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine is the loss of its Mediterranean outpost. Vladimir Putin’s obsession with Ukraine has led ...

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Three decades since declaring independence from the Soviet Union, Kazakhstan is finally about to ditch the Cyrillic alphabet. At the end of January 2021, the Kazakh government finally announced plans ...

Ukraine’s Orthodox Church split from its Russian counterpart in 2018. We explain why. In October 2018, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church officially split from its Russian counterpart, after more than 300 ...

Internet memes have become an integral part of contemporary online culture and some of the most common social media approaches to commenting on current events and issues. Meme formats come and go, but ...

Serbian Interior Minister Aleksandar Vulin has courted controversy with several statements about the so-called Serbian World, an idea that Serbs living in the Western Balkans should be part of the ...

Following Ukraine, Serbia, Romania, and Poland here is the latest in our series of five unpopular opinions about the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. This week, it’s Bulgaria. Now, over the ...

History in Central and Eastern Europe is rarely simple. The legacy of Cossack leader Bohdan Khmelnitskiy – a hero to some, traitor to others – is just one example, a fascinating case study of how ...

Poland has spent decades championing coal despite Europe’s increasingly urgent battle against climate change. Now, in a twist of atomic ambition, Warsaw wants to power past its sooty legacy and switch ...

Poland has long been a cultural powerhouse. The birthplace of no fewer than six Nobel Literature Prize laureates (most recently Olga Tokarczuk in 2018), the country can also boast a giant of science ...