Views: 9During last 5 years the EU-wide GDP increased from about €14 trillion to present nearly €18 trillion. However, expenditure are still greater than the revenues: i.e. in percentage 49,2 contra 46; therefore government deficit is 3,2% instead of required three percent. E.g. in 2023, government deficit for the euro area was 3.6% of GDP […]
The US approaches to AI: recent legal aspects
Views: 24In the beginning of 2025, the US Administration issued some executive orders, including recent President’s EO “Removing Barriers to American Leadership in AI” (adopted in January 2025). One part of this EO is called “Accelerating Federal Use of AI through Innovation, Governance and Public Trust”; it contains some risk management provisions, including AI impact […]
New era of global trade conflicts: AI in navigating businesses and governments
Views: 103Both Europe and the world entered a new era of international commerce: as the result, many businesses would go bust while new companies and governance models emerge. Digital technologies are going to play a vital role in resolving this and other emerging crises facilitating rapid change’s adaptation in political economies and governance.
European guidance on using generative AI in science
Views: 23Among various directions in European integration concept, some new “unions” constantly appear: recent attempt aims at “integrating” a digital approach to science. It is called “Living guidance on responsible use of generative AI in research”, and is the second version adopted by the ERA Forum this April. The ERA’s “document” is aimed at eliminating […]
AI’s “continental plan”: Europe heads toward global digital leadership
Views: 32The European Union has just adopted this April the “AI Continent Action Plan” in view of positioning the Union as an AI global partner. The EU’s main leverage in this endeavor is through the legal and managerial means as presently, around 85% of all AI systems remain unregulated and not subject to any rules; […]
Comprehensive overview of state aid expenditures in the EU states
Views: 26Overall state aid expenditures EU-wide in 2023 dropped to €186.78 billion from €243.27 billion in 2022. The member states channeled 73% of funds towards such policy objectives as environmental protection and energy savings, research, circular development, innovation and regional development; in 2022, this share was 49%. However, the total amount of aid spent on […]
European zero-pollution ambition: complicated ways of progress
Views: 23Twice a year the EU European Commission’s Joint Research Center together with the European Environment Agency, EEA publishes a monitoring report on progress in the member states in achieving the EU’s zero-pollution targets according to the 2021 Zero Pollution Action Plan. It reveals future policies designed to support the zero-pollution ambition in reducing threat […]
Important contribution to AI as a “co-intelligent” partner: book review
Views: 219Can books on AI help us to comprehend the digital transition, or at least part of it? Many authors would certainly think so, though the question cannot be truly answered, as the impact of some books can only seldom be empirically proven. This is not the case of the Mollick’s book, as it is […]
Tariff’s war: effects for the world and the EU
Views: 45Several issues appeared this spring with the US intentions to impose additional tariffs on imported goods from tens of countries around the world, including the EU-27. These tariffs were called coercion: i.e. the economic coercion occurs in situations where a third country attempts to pressure the EU and/or Union’s member states into making a […]
EU Circular Economy Action Plan: twin approach for the next decade
Views: 46The European Commission has taken several initiatives to streamline the circularity concept into the member states’ policy developments across different areas (mainly in waste management) since the first decade of this century. The European circularity approach embodied in action plans, involves two stages in its evolution: first plan in 2015 and the second one […]