Views: 3The EU-Africa Global Gateway Investment Package supports African states in jointly identified projects in commonly agreed priority areas. The Global Gateway projects are focusing on accelerating green and digital transition, creating sustainable growth and jobs, as well as supporting health systems and improving education and training.
EU budget for 2025: pursuing European priorities
Views: 7The budget for 2025 includes expenditures depicted in the EU-wide long-term budget ceilings and oriented towards financing the NextGenerationEU program and other European integration priorities. The budget will allow the member states to deliver on the EU political commitments agreed in the mid-term revision of the Multiannual Financial Framework. The annual EU Budget for […]
European economy in recent prognoses for 2024-2026
Views: 5According to the recent macro-economic prognoses, the European economy is “slowly recovering”; as inflation continues to ease and private consumption and investment growth pick up. Besides, unemployment is at record low level and growth is set to gradually accelerate over the next two years. However, structural challenges and geopolitical uncertainty heavily impacted the EU-wide […]
Digital transition and European financial market perspectives
Views: 11Modern financial technologies, so-called fintech are already greatly facilitating progressive development of the global and European financial markets. Indeed, the better access to financial services and its efficiency’s improvements, due to digital transitions, are benefiting private and public financial systems. The EU’s approach to digital finance is specific and includes several items dealing with […]
Single market for capital: European investment policy through reforms
Views: 11The EU-wide capital markets “union” represents a vital part of the continental integration efforts and aims to create a single market for capital. Among other issues, it is about activating available capital and money in the form of investments and savings to “flouting freely” across the EU member states in order to benefit consumers, […]
“New economics” vs. modernized political economy: comments on “the call”
Views: 114At the end of October, two distinguished scientists, Professors Leonardo Becchetti and Jeffrey Sachs published a “call” for a “new economics” based on research, teaching and practice. The idea aims to assist “humanity facing many deep challenges”. The future cohort of economists is going to create “humane, just, peaceful, productive and sustainable” economic systems. […]
European industrial strategy: new incentives for decarbonized future
Views: 118European competitiveness in the world is a multi-facet phenomenon comprising several sectors in the member states’ political economy’s models. BusinessEurope is concentrating on industrial transformation, energy issues, investments, renewables, etc. For example, recent conference in Denmark was devoted to a new EU-wide industrial strategy with strategic reviews of EU energy and climate policies.
The EU is going to be enlarged by another several countries
Views: 10At the end of October 2024, the European Commission adopted the annual Enlargement Package, providing a detailed assessment of the state of play and the progress made by Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Georgia, the Republic of Moldova, Ukraine and Türkiye, on their respective paths towards the EU accession. The […]
New European “competitiveness deal”: a declaration is on the way…
Views: 126Since the fundamental report on European competitiveness appeared in mid-2024 (Draghi report), the issue has become a priority in numerous EU institutions and in the member states’ governance. The European Business Intelligence has attracted attention to competitiveness in view of preparing for a special EU “competitiveness deal” devoted to resolving some hot contemporary issues […]
Financing European integration: present and distant priorities
Views: 13It’s never too late to think about future priorities: in the wake of compiling new Commission’s college, the EU legislative institutions are formulating some distant priorities to fund from the Union’s budget. The Commission’s idea is that the member states should more actively adapt reforms which include the EU-wide objectives thus “optimizing” the Union’s […]