Countries

Europe's largest reconstruction programme, financed by the EU and the development banks, and an export credit insurance that has been opened wide for Dutch companies and is hardly used. Whoever is present now will be at the front later. Two of our founders are Ukrainian; that opens doors an interpreter does not.

What to watch: the country is at war. Martial law and mobilisation make establishing harder now than anywhere, and the choice of region decides almost everything. We are honest about what is possible now and what has to wait.

A young, growing industry, a government that actively encourages foreign establishment and a clean sanctions profile. Russian is the working language, and we speak it. Of the countries in our region this is where an operation moves fastest from decision to working factory.

What to watch: the institutions are young and the distance is great. What looks smoothly arranged on paper needs someone on the ground who knows the way and stays. That is what we are for.

Central Asia's largest economy, with industrial zones, raw materials and a rail corridor to Europe. A member of the Eurasian Economic Union, which gives your product access to a market of almost two hundred million people.

What to watch: that same union means EAC certification instead of CE and more attention to sanctions friction. Getting in is more expensive here than in Uzbekistan; it works, but run the numbers first.