Each Christmas The Economist names a country of the year. Not the happiest: that would nearly always be Scandinavian, making for a dull, predictable contest. Nor the most influential: that would ...

The QSR industry has been through two radical reinventions in the last 75 years. And we are on the precipice of the third. I’ve dubbed the first wave of reinvention “Land & Expand,” which took place ...

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People to watch in 2026, and forecasts for 81 countries The coalition government under the chancellor, Christian Stocker of the centre-right Austrian People’s Party, and his centre-left Social ...

It’s official. Vienna is no longer the most liveable city in the world. After a three-year run at the top of the annual list from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the Austrian capital has been ...