Emerging Europe

Brutal regimes rarely want for trading partners. The Taliban are only the latest to find that strategy and commerce outlast moral objection.

Gul Hassan, the Taliban’s ambassador in Moscow, spent the first days of June 2026 working the sidelin...

The EU’s door to the east is once again ajar, but the partner that spent two decades holding it wide open for newcomers is no longer inside.

Taras Kachka, Ukraine’s deputy prime minister for European integration, called it “a re...

Spain is regularising half a million migrants as other governments shut the door. The backlash at home has been milder than many had feared.

Queues, long queues, have been a common sight in towns and cities across Spain this spring and...

The Last Word: Before we start deploying AI in schools, perhaps we should learn more about what, exactly, we want to achieve by doing so.

The most dangerous phrase in education today may be ‘AI-ready’. It sounds practical, modern, reassur...

With a voluntary code and a hard deadline.

Covered unlabelled deepfakes and AI-generated public-interest content are about to become a compliance risk in Europe. The European Commission published the final Code of Practi...