![Zuzana Zavarská is an economist at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw).](https://img-en.europeanvoices.eu/public/incoming/vdb8m8-Zavarska-9103.jpg/alternates/LANDSCAPE_600/Zavarska-9103.jpg)
Europe by the Numbers
Central Eastern Europe’s Achilles Heel: The Energy Question
The high cost of energy in Central Eastern Europe and its slow progress in the green transition is a weakness that could be turned into an opportunity.
![Senada Šelo Šabić is a scientific advisor at the Institute for Development and International Relations (IRMO) in Zagreb.](https://img-en.europeanvoices.eu/public/incoming/x9lk9k-a_Z1A8515-Hoyka.jpg/alternates/LANDSCAPE_600/a_Z1A8515%20Hoyka.jpg)
Migration
Future Citizens or Just Workers?
Croatia has loosened immigration quotas to counter its demographic decline. But to avoid tensions, it needs to pay attention to integrating its new arrivals.
![Martina Dalić is an economist and finance expert who was deputy prime minister of Croatia and minister of economy.](https://img-en.europeanvoices.eu/public/incoming/33q37h-20240320121503_FB8A1665-1.jpg/alternates/LANDSCAPE_600/20240320121503_FB8A1665%201.jpg)
Competitive Europe
‘Regulations Should not Ignore Basic Market Economic Mechanisms’
Can Europe compete economically with China and the US as it seeks equal footing on the world stage? Former Croatian Finance Minister Martina Dalić offers views on ways to work towards that goal.
![Kristijan Fidanovski is an economist at wiiw and a PhD candidate at the University of Oxford’s Department of Social Policy and Intervention.](https://img-en.europeanvoices.eu/public/incoming/swcavt-Fidanovski-9124.jpg/alternates/PORTRAIT_300/Fidanovski-9124.jpg)
Europe by the Numbers
Turning Demographic Change into an Opportunity
![Werner Hoyer, former president of the European Investment Bank (EIB).](https://img-en.europeanvoices.eu/public/incoming/523jas-26102020-Caroline-MartinM0007_DSC2907.jpg/alternates/LANDSCAPE_600/26102020%20Caroline%20MartinM0007_DSC2907.jpg)
Reconstructing Ukraine
Yes We Can Help Ukraine and The Western Balkans
East and Central European successes stand as a model for the continent’s new aspiring candidates.
![Richard Grieveson, deputy director at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw).](https://img-en.europeanvoices.eu/public/incoming/bg9odl-Grieveson-Richard-2142.jpg/alternates/LANDSCAPE_600/Grieveson-Richard-2142.jpg)
Europe by the Numbers
A Lot to Gain A Lot to Lose
The region of Central, East, and Southeast Europe faces huge economic challenges as it emerges from the twin shocks of the pandemic and energy-driven high inflation.