European cities and regions
of the future (2024)
Europe’s foreign direct investment (FDI) landscape proved challenging in 2023, with investment falling from a year earlier in terms of the number of projects and capital pledges. Europe’s share of the global FDI pie shrank in 2023, accounting for roughly 29% of the total projects announced in 2023 — down from roughly 36% in 2022.
A handful of cities from central and eastern Europe stole the spotlight in the 2024 iteration of fDi Intelligence’s flagship European Cities and Regions of the Future ranking.
In the mid-sized cities category, Poland’s Wrocław made a statement as it clinched the first place ahead of Zürich — last year’s winner — and Vilnius.
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