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COMPANIES & MARKETS
4 Martin Gauss, airBaltic CEO 6 Dolomite mine owned by
Orban's father supplies Hungary's largest railway project
7 The new Uzbek-Afghan
free economic zone on the border promotes better ties with the Taliban
9 Central Asian leaders seek German expertise to build manufacturing base
10 Have lab-grown diamonds changed the diamond industry forever?
12 JPMorgan Chase and HSBC reportedly unwittingly processed payments for Wagner warlord Prigozhin
13 Fast fashion slowly conquers the Balkans
15 Poland’s Zabka Group IPO could make it Warsaw’s new blue chip
16 Rising gold ETF inflows set to drive global bullion prices
17 Ukraine’s bondholders sign off on $20bn debt restructuring deal
18 Nebius enters European AI infrastructure race with multi-billion-dollar invest- ment plan
20 Albania plans AI-driven public procurement
20 Serbia hikes ICT exports as Russian tech professionals boost sector
21 Global wind power installations reached a new high in 2023
22 Infrastructure bottleneck could thwart Kazakhstan’s ambition to export green hydrogen to Europe
COVER FEATURE
24 Europe has lost its competitive edge
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