Katrin Lindqvist

Business Correspondent, The Continental Times

Katrin covers business for The Continental Times and has reported from more than a dozen countries.

Poland Ran Out of Workers. Now It Is Recruiting in Manila and Kathmandu.

With unemployment at 2.8 percent and 450,000 jobs unfilled, Polish employers have brought in a quarter of a million workers from South and Southeast Asia in three years, transforming factory towns and testing the country’s politics.

Oct. 11, 2026 7 MIN READ

The market square in Wrocław. The city’s manufacturing belt employs tens of thousands of workers from abroad.

Europe Finally Has a Single Company Form. Estonia’s Founders Were First in Line.

The ‘E.U. Inc.’ statute, a decade in the making, lets start-ups incorporate once and raise money in all 27 countries. On its first day, 1,900 companies registered, a third of them from a nation of 1.4 million.

Oct. 7, 2026 6 MIN READ

Rooftops of Tallinn’s Old Town. Estonia accounted for a third of registrations under the new E.U. company statute on its first day.