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China's carmakers continue to export more despite geopolitical constraints

China TA | AP Insight - October 12, 2026.

China's passenger car exports surged 64% in September from the same month in 2025, an industry association reported Monday, as Chinese automakers increasingly focus on...

Europe should not look to US and China while solving its productivity crisis

Economy Dani Rodrik - October 12, 2026.

Europe faces a productivity crisis. Over the past quarter-century, its labor productivity has risen only half as rapidly as that of the United States, widening...

Palestinians wait for elections, Gaza waits for a government

Middle East TA Analysis - October 12, 2026.

Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority, postponed parliamentary elections scheduled for 28 November this year to 11 September 2027, when both the president and...

Europe is regulating its rental homes out of existence

Economy Daniel Lacalle - October 12, 2026.

From Barcelona to Berlin, and from Amsterdam to Dublin, rent caps and ever heavier state intervention have barely protected sitting tenants while shrinking supply, deterring...

Cubans turn to free community pharmacies as medicines grow scarce

Economy TA | AP Insight - October 11, 2026.

Every Thursday and Sunday at noon, dozens of people gather outside an apartment building in Havana’s Vedado neighborhood. Laura Mendoza comes downstairs, checks their names...

The World Bank’s crisis funding comes from development projects

Economy Tomorrow's Affairs Staff - October 11, 2026.

World Bank President Ajay Banga said on 11 October, ahead of the annual meetings of the institution and the International Monetary Fund in Bangkok, that...

Deterrence by punishment – NATO needs more effective protection of its frontline states

Politics Agnia Grigas - October 11, 2026.

On September 23, just a week after NATO aircraft shot down a drone that had entered Lithuanian air space from Belarus, a Russian military helicopter...

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