“Today, EUROSTAT officially confirmed that Latvia has finally reached the BOTTOM OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,” wrote theater director Alvis Hermanis on December 17. In his next post, Hermanis added a link to the Eurostat website.

On January 1, Bulgaria became the latest country to adopt the euro, bringing the Eurozone to 21 member states. Meanwhile, Poland continues to delay steps toward joining the Eurogroup. Is that the right decision? By joining the euro, Bulgaria enters…

“The world is entering a new era in which leadership in frontier technologies determines not only economic success, but also state power and societal resilience,” the authors of the report stress. Meanwhile, Europe is lagging: the United States has “17 times more computing power than Europe,” and China is investing in AI infrastructure at an unprecedented pace.