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Germany is emerging as Europe’s most compelling growth story heading into 2026, with analysts forecasting a return to steady expansion and international firms eyeing new opportunities across the continent’s largest economy. Global employment specialist Agility EOR is urging international companies to take a fresh look at Germany, as forecasts point to 1.3% GDP growth next year, underpinned by €500 billion in government infrastructure investment and more than €630 billion in private-sector funding. The scale of...

Wealthy Britons are moving unprecedented sums into offshore bonds as they brace for higher taxes and seek more flexible ways to manage their wealth. According to data reviewed by the Financial Times, around £10.5 billion was invested in offshore bonds in the 12 months to June, more than double the £5.1 billion recorded the previous year — marking a record-breaking surge in demand for overseas investment wrappers. Financial advisers say the trend reflects the growing...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has signalled that her 26 November Budget will ask more Britons to shoulder the burden of repairing the nation’s public finances — even if that means breaking Labour’s manifesto pledge not to raise income tax. In a speech this week, Reeves warned that “hard choices” were unavoidable if Britain was to protect the NHS, reduce national debt and keep inflation under control. Her language marked a shift from earlier assurances that only...

More than a third of the UK’s fastest-growing technology scale-ups have no women on their boards, according to new research that highlights a striking gap between rhetoric and reality on diversity in Britain’s tech sector. The report from global growth consultancy Think & Grow found that women occupy just 18% of board positions across the UK’s leading tech scale-ups, while 36% of these companies have no female board members at all. This is despite an...

Imagine you need to build a team of 150 professionals from scratch, in a country where critical infrastructure isn’t finished, while the entire world prepares to watch. You have officials from every continent speaking dozens of languages, three separate organizational bodies with competing priorities, and a construction site that should already be a world-class tennis venue. Welcome to Olympic officiating. When Soeren Friemel arrived in Rio de Janeiro in December 2015 for his pre-Olympic site...

The regenerative medicine sector has long promised transformative therapeutic interventions, yet commercial viability remained elusive for decades. Recent developments suggest the field has reached a critical inflection point where cellular therapy technologies transition from experimental protocols to scalable clinical applications. Companies like Celljevity, with their Prometheus Cell therapy demonstrating consistent outcomes across more than 1,000 treated patients, exemplify this maturation process. The shift from laboratory research to commercial healthcare delivery requires more than scientific validation....