Views: 2According to the EU Treaties, the European Commission, on behalf of the member states, is able to borrow from the international capital markets to finance selected EU policy programs. The EU-bond issues facility has a well-established name in debt securities markets, with a track record of bond issuances during last 40 years. Present EU […]
European net-zero industrial strategy
Views: 5The EU net-zero industry’s legislation is aimed at making European continent the focal point of world-wide clean technologies manufacturing and green jobs; it is identifying goals for net-zero industrial capacity and provide a regulatory framework suited for its quick deployment. However, the process is more complicated and includes several other aspects of the EU’s […]
EU “industrial deal” and chemical sector’s involvement
Views: 8The European “clean industrial deal” is expected to become one of the most defining legislative efforts of the new Commission College, even that the initial draft and its actual contents remain quite vague. The new law will “ramp up investments in clean technologies and energy-intensive sectors” to keep Europe’s economy looming “without losing sight […]
European CAP: recent comprehensive ago-policy analysis
Views: 12Eurobarometer publishes regularly surveys on the state-of-art of EU-wide agriculture: i.e. recent eighth edition was conducted last summer among over 26 thousand respondents from different social and demographic groups. Present survey provides a comprehensive overview of Europeans’ attitudes towards agriculture and the Common Agricultural Policy, which takes about one-third of EU budget.
“Positive sustainability” in growth: European governance strategies
Views: 8The European approach in growth is, generally, a result and an outcome of the EU-wide adopted political economy pattern based on the concept of “social market economy” in which the regulatory and governance strategies have been dominating for decades. The EU has conducted recently several “hybrid efforts” on strengthening the EU’s leadership in sustainability, […]
European Sustainable Development Report-2024: assessment and outcomes
Views: 19Regularly published European Sustainable Development Reports represent a regional assessment of countries’ progress towards achieving the UN-2030 Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs. The new report complements to the official SDG-indicators and the voluntary national reviews. As in previous years, present report is based on public consultations (this time during last December) and gathers internationally comparable […]
World Economic Forum-2025: collaboration in a digital age
Views: 89World Economic Forum Annual Meeting at the end of January 2025 is devoted to some of the most pressing contemporary issues: from trust in public institutions and transforming global economy to modern resilient societies and innovative global partnerships to “safeguarding the planet” and corporate transformations in the digital, as WEF called it, the “intelligent […]
European AI legal standardization involves about 700 companies
Views: 37The European AI law is the first set of rules in the world aimed at regulating digital infrastructures, including virtual assistants, large language models, AI and ChatGPT, etc. Although it was published last August, the regulation will apply gradually: e.g. some AI provisions already from August 2024, the general-purpose AI rules – a year […]
European social market economy: concept and development
Views: 16The European integration project is based –in part- on an attractive and ambitious idea of “uniting” the adherent member states along involvement in the so-called “social market economy” model. Among its most vital elements (mainly, in the social security system) are such issues as, e.g. occupational pension, universal health care and unemployment insurance. These […]
European Semester in the Autumn Package: modern analysis in growth
Views: 18In November, the Commission assessed the first set of medium-term plans, the draft budgetary plans of the euro zone member states and revised the excessive deficit procedure; presently, the second Autumn Package adopted this December by the new Commission’s staff focused on promoting policy actions to benefit the euro area, monitoring macroeconomic imbalances and […]