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China Becomes Georgia’s Largest Foreign Investor as Eurasian Capital Flows Shift

China has become Georgia’s largest source of foreign direct investment for the first time in the latest quarterly data, accounting for almost half of all FDI entering the country during the second quarter of 2026 and highlighting the growing economic relationship between Beijing and the strategically located South Caucasus state.

By EuroAsia.News · 17 September 2026 · 00:00 · 6 min read

• China
• Georgia
• EuroAsia
• Middle Corridor

Kyrgyzstan’s Wartime Boom - How the Ukraine War Rewired a Central Asian Economy

Few countries have benefited economically from the geopolitical shock of the Ukraine war as visibly as Kyrgyzstan.

By EuroAsia.News · 16 September 2026 · 10:33 · 3 min read

• Russia
• Ukraine
• Kyrgyzstan
• Economy

Checkmate Europe? The Energy Advantage Europe Gave Away Is Moving East

Europe's break with Russian energy was presented as a question of strategic independence. Politically, the argument was straightforward: an economy should not depend heavily on a geopolitical adversary for its fuel.

By EuroAsia.News · 15 September 2026 · 00:00 · 4 min read

• EU
• Energy
• Gas
• Factory Closure

Russia Lost Europe — But Is Building a Bigger Gas Market in Asia

For half a century, Russian gas flowed west. Germany, Italy, Austria and much of Central Europe became connected to Siberian gas fields through an enormous pipeline network, while Gazprom built one of the world's most profitable energy-export businesses.

By EuroAsia.News · 14 September 2026 · 00:00 · 3 min read

• EU
• Economy
• Gas
• Energy
• Russia

Germany’s Industrial Model Was Built on Cheap Energy — Can It Survive Without Russian Gas?

For decades, Germany’s industrial strength rested on a powerful combination: engineering excellence, skilled labour, export markets and reliable energy at internationally competitive prices. Soviet and Russian oil and pipeline gas became a major part of that model.

By EuroAsia.News · 13 September 2026 · 10:13 · 2 min read

• Germany
• Russia
• Gas
• Economy

BRICS Pay Moves From Talk Toward Reality - Finance Chiefs Back Connected Payment Systems

BRICS has taken another concrete step toward building a cross-border payment architecture connecting its member economies. Meeting in India ahead of this weekend’s leaders’ summit in New Delhi, BRICS finance ministers and central-bank governors formally backed continued work on making national payment systems interoperable and developing faster, cheaper and safer cross-border payments.

By EuroAsia.News · 11 September 2026 · 23:00 · 4 min read

• EuroAsia
• BRICS
• Dollar

Europe Cannot Tax, Borrow and Import Its Way Out of Decline

Europe’s political class increasingly behaves as if every economic problem can be solved through one of three mechanisms: higher taxes, more government borrowing or more immigration. None of them addresses the central problem.

By EuroAsia.News · 11 September 2026 · 16:21 · 5 min read

• Europe
• EU
• Econoomy
• Migration

Is Hungary Under EU Pressure to Destroy Its Russian Relations?

Ten diplomats expelled, Russian relations deteriorating and a curious new “energy cooperation” with Latvia — Budapest’s foreign-policy pivot is becoming increasingly difficult to dismiss as symbolism. But what does Hungary actually gain if political alignment with Brussels comes at the price of its established relationship with Moscow?

By EuroAsia.News · 11 September 2026 · 12:18 · 3 min read

• Hungary
• EU
• Gas
• Russia

Buy European Is Becoming Real - Brussels Turns €2.5 Trillion of Public Spending Into an Industrial Weapon

For decades, European public procurement was built around a relatively simple principle: governments should buy transparently, encourage competition and obtain the best value for taxpayers.

By EuroAsia.News · 9 September 2026 · 18:08 · 3 min read

• EU
• Economy
• Finance

Factories Close, Jobs Disappear — Where Is Hungary's Government Economic Plan?

Four months after Péter Magyar’s Tisza government took office, Hungary's economic warning lights are flashing. Factories are closing, construction is under pressure, employment is falling and hundreds of families at a time are being told that their jobs will disappear.

By EuroAsia.News · 9 September 2026 · 16:03 · 3 min read

• Hungary
• Factory
• Jobs
• Electrolux

Europe’s New Resource Nationalism - Why Brussels Wants to Keep Its Aluminium Scrap at Home

For decades, Europe treated metal scrap largely as a commodity: collect it, sell it and allow global markets to determine where it would be recycled. Brussels is now moving toward a very different philosophy.

By EuroAsia.News · 5 September 2026 · 18:40 · 2 min read

• Economy
• Europe
• Aluminium

From the Black Sea to the Supermarket - Why the World’s Food Buffer Is Shrinking Again

The global food crisis that followed the pandemic and the outbreak of war in Ukraine never completely disappeared. For several years, however, falling commodity prices created the impression that the worst had passed.

By EuroAsia.News · 5 September 2026 · 18:28 · 2 min read

• Economy
• Food

China Replacing OPEC? How Beijing Became the Swing Power in the Global Oil Market

For half a century, discussions about who controls the oil market usually began with OPEC. Saudi Arabia’s spare production capacity, cartel quotas and, later, the wider OPEC+ alliance with Russia could move prices with a single announcement. But the centre of gravity may now be shifting from the countries producing the marginal barrel to the country buying it.

By EuroAsia.News · 5 September 2026 · 13:48 · 2 min read

• Energy
• Oil
• China
• Economy

Europe Exchanged Russian Gas Supply — But Has It Exchanged One "Vulnerability" for Another?

Europe is approaching another winter with an uncomfortable number attached to its energy security.

By EuroAsia.News · 5 September 2026 · 00:00 · 3 min read

• Energy
• Europe
• Russia
• Gas
• LNG

Eastern Economic Forum Closes with Nearly 7 Trillion Rubles in Deals — But the Bigger Story Is How Much the Far East Has Already Changed

The 2026 Eastern Economic Forum ended in Vladivostok with hundreds of agreements, new transport and industrial projects and another expansion of Russia's economic relationship with Asia. Yet behind the headline contracts is a broader transformation: after more than a decade of preferential investment regimes, subsidised housing and even free land, the Russian Far East is beginning to look very different from the region that entered the first EEF in 2015.

By EuroAsia.News · 4 September 2026 · 19:42 · 4 min read

• EuroAsia
• Russia
• News
• Economy

Plant Maize, Harvest Nothing - Central Europe Faces an Agricultural Turning Point

For generations, maize was one of the safest assumptions in the agricultural economy of the Carpathian Basin. Hungary and Romania possessed fertile soils, long summers, large areas of arable land and proximity to the Danube and Black Sea export routes. A farmer planting maize could reasonably expect not only a harvest, but a marketable surplus. That assumption is beginning to break down.

By EuroAsia.News · 4 September 2026 · 18:38 · 4 min read

• Agriculture
• Harvest
• Maize
• Climate Change
• Europe

When Bitcoin Becomes Banking - Standard Chartered Takes Institutional Crypto Into the UAE

Is traditional banking really embracing crypto — or have the banks simply decided that if trillions of dollars are going to move through digital assets, they want their share of the business?

By EuroAsia.News · 3 September 2026 · 23:25 · 4 min read

• Crypto
• Economy
• Finance
• UAE

From Vladivostok to the Chinese Shopping Cart

At the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russian-Chinese cooperation is moving from declarations to the consumer’s screen. The Russian Export Center (REC) is using the 2026 forum to stage its first “Made in Russia” online festival there, linking Russian producers with Chinese marketplaces, livestream hosts and millions of buyers. Around 100 applications came from makers of food, drinks, cosmetics, toys and souvenirs.

By EuroAsia.News · 3 September 2026 · 00:30 · 2 min read

• Vladivostok
• China
• Made in Russia
• Food
• Online

Digital Ruble vs Digital Yuan - Can Russia and China Build a Sanctions-Resistant Payment Network?

Russia's mass-market digital ruble rollout begins just as China's digital yuan is moving increasingly into cross-border trade. Together, the two systems raise a strategically important possibility: direct digital settlement between two of Eurasia's largest economies without depending on dollar clearing or Western correspondent banks. The technology increasingly exists. The more difficult questions are interoperability, exchange rates, regulation and whether Beijing actually wants to move that quickly.

By EuroAsia.News · 1 September 2026 · 10:53 · 4 min read

• Crypto
• Economy
• Russia
• China
• Finance
• Trade

Russia Launches the Digital Ruble - Moscow Moves Ahead of Europe as America Bets on Stablecoins

Russia begins the large-scale rollout of the digital ruble today, 1 September 2026, moving its central-bank digital currency from a controlled experiment into everyday banking. The project puts Russia years ahead of the planned digital euro in public deployment — but follows a fundamentally different model from the United States, which has rejected a federal CBDC and is instead building its digital-money strategy around privately issued dollar stablecoins.

By EuroAsia.News · 1 September 2026 · 09:47 · 4 min read

• Digital Ruble
• Crypto
• Russia
• Euro
• Economy

SCO vs G7 - Which Bloc Has the Greater Economic Power?

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and the G7 represent two very different concentrations of global power. The G7 remains substantially richer in nominal dollar terms and dominates international finance, while the SCO contains more than four times as many people, enormous energy and mineral resources and — measured by purchasing power — an economy that is already larger. The comparison shows why the economic centre of gravity is steadily shifting toward Eurasia.

By EuroAsia.News · 1 September 2026 · 09:04 · 4 min read

• Eurasia
• G7
• SCO
• Europe
• Trade
• Economy

SCO at 25 - From Border-Security Group to a Eurasian Powerhouse

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation marks its 25th anniversary at its summit in Bishkek with China, Russia, India and the major powers of Central Asia around the same table. What began in 2001 as a security organisation of six states has developed into a Eurasian grouping representing more than 3.4 billion people, around a quarter of the global economy and some of the world's largest reserves of energy and strategic minerals. The central question for its next 25 years is whether that enormous potential can be converted into deeper economic integration.

By EuroAsia.News · 1 September 2026 · 08:42 · 4 min read

• Eurasia
• Middle Corridor
• Nordic Route
• Trans Caspian
• Energy

Vladivostok 2026: Russia’s Eastern Economic Forum Opens With Asia at the Centre

The 11th Eastern Economic Forum opens in Vladivostok on 1 September with representatives from more than 70 countries expected, major delegations from across Asia and a growing pipeline of investment projects. After three successive years of record deal-making, Moscow is presenting the Russian Far East not as a remote frontier but as one of the principal gateways connecting Russia with China, India, Southeast Asia and the Arctic.

By EuroAsia.News · 31 August 2026 · 14:40 · 3 min read

• Eastern Economic Forum
• EEF 2026
• Vladivostok
• Russia
• Russian Far East
• investment
• China
• India
• Indonesia
• Prabowo Subianto
• Vladimir Putin
• Northern Sea Route
• Eurasia

China to Hamburg - How Much Shorter Is the Northern Sea Route?

For cargo travelling between China and northern Europe, the map makes the attraction of the Arctic immediately obvious. A voyage from Shanghai to Hamburg is roughly 5,200 kilometers shorter through the Northern Sea Route than through the Suez Canal. The question is whether that geographical advantage can be transformed into reliable commercial shipping.

By EuroAsia.News · 30 August 2026 · 17:15 · 3 min read

• Shipping
• China
• Russia
• Nordic Sea Route
• Suez

Russia’s Nuclear Icebreaker Fleet - The Power Behind Moscow’s Arctic Strategy

Russia’s nuclear-powered icebreakers give Moscow a capability no other country currently possesses at comparable scale. Eight nuclear vessels are in service, more are being built, and the Kremlin is betting that an expanded fleet will turn the Northern Sea Route into one of Eurasia’s most important transport corridors. Yet sanctions, ageing Soviet-era ships and increasingly demanding Arctic operations are testing that advantage.

By EuroAsia.News · 30 August 2026 · 16:52 · 6 min read

• Arctic
• Shipping
• Eurasia
• Economy

TikTok Shop Launches in Poland - A New Era for Social Commerce Challenges Allegro’s Dominance

The social media giant's entry into Poland's e-commerce market on June 15, 2026, represents a direct challenge to local champion Allegro, armed with a powerful army of influencers and a model that turns shopping into entertainment.

By EuroAsia.News · 28 August 2026 · 22:15 · 3 min read

• Trade
• Online

Armenia's European Dream - Economic Suicide or Necessary Diversification?

Between Russian Market and EU Aspirations — How a Landlocked Nation Risks Repeating the Pernod Ricard Lesson, Trading Its Largest Market for Unproven Promises, While Facing a 23% GDP Contraction and the Loss of Its Traditional Export Lifeline.

By EuroAsia.News · 24 August 2026 · 19:46 · 4 min read

• Economy
• Trade
• EU
• Russia

Europe’s Heatwave Is No Longer Just a Weather Story — It Is an Energy and Economic Story

From 41°C Temperatures to €180 Billion in Projected Losses — How Record Heat Is Crippling Power Grids, Paralyzing Industry, Devastating Agriculture, and Exposing a Continent Unprepared for the New Climate Reality

By EuroAsia.News · 22 August 2026 · 23:40 · 4 min read

Germany's 13% Chancellor - How Merz's Failed Economic Leadership Is Breaking a Nation

With an approval rating lower than any German chancellor in three decades, Friedrich Merz presides over a country in industrial freefall—where Volkswagen is closing factories, 43% of firms are fleeing overseas, and a government fixated on weapons spending has delivered neither growth nor reform, leaving 78% of citizens deeply dissatisfied and the far-right AfD surging to 28% in the polls.

By EuroAsia.News · 22 August 2026 · 07:21 · 2 min read

• Politics
• Economy
• Germany

Europe Amputated its Russian Trade — And the US Stepped in.

Brussels cut off one of Europe’s largest trading relationships after 2022. Russia found new customers, while the United States — from a far smaller base — continues Russian import.

By EuroAsia.News · 20 August 2026 · 17:20 · 2 min read

• Economy
• Trade

Can Europe Build a Euro Stablecoin Economy?

MiCA has given Europe a common rulebook, but the market is no longer just a contest of regulation. Circle leads on liquidity, while European issuers are differentiating through bank connectivity, institutional settlement, payments and programmable treasury.

By EuroAsia.News Crypto · 20 August 2026 · 12:51 · 4 min read

• Finance
• Crypto
• Economy
• EU

The Middle Corridor Moves From Geopolitical Backup To Eurasian Logistics Business

The Trans-Caspian route linking China with Europe through Kazakhstan, the Caspian Sea, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Türkiye is rapidly gaining capacity. Its next challenge is not political support, but whether multiple railways, ports, ferries and customs systems can operate like one predictable logistics product.

By EuroAsia.News · 19 August 2026 · 17:33 · 3 min read

The €4 Doughnut That Overran The Dolomites

Hundreds of tourists have descended on a remote Italian mountain refuge for a viral pastry — highlighting how social-media algorithms are creating a new and unpredictable form of overtourism.

By EuroAsia.News · 18 August 2026 · 11:54 · 2 min read

• Tourism
• Italy
• Social Media
• Economy

Europe’s Tourists Head North As Extreme Heat Redraws The Holiday Map

As Mediterranean summers become hotter and more unpredictable, northern Europe is gaining a new competitive advantage: comfortable temperatures.

By EuroAsia.News · 18 August 2026 · 11:44 · 2 min read

• Europe
• Tourism
• Economy
• Climate

Japan’s Farmers Are Becoming Nocturnal As Extreme Heat Reshapes Agriculture

From harvesting flowers after dark to feeding chickens before sunrise, Japanese agriculture is changing its working day as farmers struggle with increasingly dangerous summer temperatures.

By EuroAsia.News Climate Desk · 18 August 2026 · 10:42 · 2 min read

• Asia
• Climate
• Agriculture
• Economy

Europe’s Seas Are Heating Up — And The Change Is Accelerating

Record marine temperatures across the Mediterranean and Atlantic are becoming a structural climate risk for Europe’s ecosystems, fisheries and coastal economies.

By EuroAsia.News Climate Desk · 18 August 2026 · 10:16 · 2 min read

• Europe
• Climate
• Tourism
• Economy

The Ice Silk Road

Will it be the route of the future?

By EuroAsia.News · 17 August 2026 · 18:07 · 5 min read

• Arctic
• Shipping
• Eurasia
• Economy

What $80 Billion Can Build—or Destroy: South Korea’s Cultural Economy vs. the Iran War

Eighty billion dollars can transform a country’s global image, create industries and attract millions of visitors. It can also be consumed by missiles, military operations and the reconstruction of infrastructure destroyed by those same weapons.

By EuroAsia.News Editorial · 16 August 2026 · 17:37 · 7 min read

• cultural economy
• South Korea
• Iran
• war spending
• soft power
• opportunity cost