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The UK venture capital market experienced a noticeable slowdown in the first seven months of 2025. Analyst data shows a decline in deal volume of around 14% and a reduction in total deal value of 11% year-on-year. This cooling off is not an isolated phenomenon, however, but rather a reflection
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The European public sector is experiencing a transformation on an unprecedented scale. Acting as a global stress test, the pandemic exposed decades of neglect and became a powerful catalyst for change. Today, driven by a stream of funding from EU programmes, digitalisation has ceased to be an option and has
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Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the backbone of the European economy. They account for 99.8 per cent of all companies, generate more than half of the added value and employ nearly two-thirds of the private sector workforce. In an era of global competition and rising customer expectations, digitalisation
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For decades, Europe’s technological landscape was based on a simple divide: innovative, capital-rich centres in the West and talented but mostly cheaper hinterlands in the East. Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) was mainly seen through the prism of cost arbitrage, ideal for nearshoring. Today, this stereotype is not only
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Sunday evening. A plane with the President of the European Commission on board is approaching a landing in Bulgaria. At a crucial moment, minutes before touching down on the runway, the pilots lose access to the essential navigation tool of the 21st century – the GPS signal. The systems that modern
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The European Commission’s ‘State of the Digital Decade 2025‘ report is an annual barometer of ambitions and realities in the Union’s digital landscape. This year’s edition, while pointing to progress, is first and foremost a sober assessment of the fundamental challenges. The document identifies 12 key areas
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SAP intends to invest more than €20 billion (approximately $23 billion) to develop its sovereign cloud offering in the European Union. This is a strategic response to the growing demand for data sovereignty, driven by regulations such as RODO and the upcoming AI Act. The German giant’s investment is
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The fight against child sexual abuse material (CSAM) is an absolute priority and a moral obligation of the digital society. There is full consensus on this point. However, a supposedly simple solution has emerged in the public debate about the methods of this fight – mass scanning of our private communications,
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The growing popularity of so-called tokenised shares, offered by platforms such as Robinhood and Coinbase, has attracted the attention of EU regulators. The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) warns that such instruments, although based on innovative blockchain technology, can lead to ‘misunderstandings’ and create new risks for investors. The
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The European Union plans to deploy additional satellites in low earth orbit (LEO) to build resilience against the growing threat of GPS signal jamming. The initiative is a direct response to increasing incidents in Europe attributed to Russia’s hybrid warfare activities. As announced by EU Defence Commissioner Andrius Kubilius,
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Warsaw rarely features in the global discussion of financial centres. London, Frankfurt or Zurich dominate. Yet it is in Poland, far from the traditional bastions of banking, that a quiet revolution is taking place. A country that is not a global financial capital has built one of the most dynamic
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The end of the gold rush that drove Polish e-commerce during the pandemic era is now a reality. We are entering a new, much more challenging era – the era of strategists. Forecasts indicating that the market will reach £192 billion by 2028 are no longer a promise of easy profits