Views: 38The Commission is constantly watching the ways the member states implement the EU laws. Numerous EU member states have not yet notified full transposition measures concerning the EU directives in various economy and development sectors. Recent infringement decisions are dealing with sustainability and renewable energy. The mentioned member states are now having two months […]
Month: September 2024
Challenging European priorities: alternative Commission’s features
Views: 49Recently the European Commission has published the EU’s political priorities and guidance for 2024-2029; they have shown the following min strategic priorities: green growth (so-called green deal), digitalisation, attracting investments, strengthening the EU’s role in the world, as well as protecting the rule of law and democracy. However, two independent reports prepared by Draghi […]
Renewables in Europe: refreshing priorities
Views: 43In March 2023, the EU together with the International Energy Agency has formulated a sort of “global movement” that would help Europe and participating states to stay within 1.5 degrees Celsius and push the clean energy transition forward. The proposed “global targets” also included the EU-wide efforts to triple renewables and double energy savings […]
“Pact for Future”: a green and social deal for a one-planet economy
Views: 25During some days this September (22-24.09), the UN’s Summit of the Future convened in the UN’s headquarters, serving as a once-in-a-generation opportunity to enhance cooperation on critical challenges, will address gaps in global governance and reaffirm devotion to already existing commitments. The European Union has already a feasible and comprehensive plan for a “green […]
European green transformation: restricting PFAS
Views: 21Presently adopted restriction on the use of PFAS’ sub-groups is a vital step that brings the European consumers, as well as the nature and environment, closer to a toxic-free future. These restrictions will ban the use of this ‘forever chemical’ for the benefit of the EU’s twin transition toward green and digital economy, and […]
New Commission’s college is aimed at increasing regional competitiveness
Views: 40The new college is entrusted with exploring already defined EU-wide core priorities built on prosperity, security, democracy and competitiveness during 2024-29. Alongside the twin transition, these priorities are intertwined and cross-cutting, noted the Commission’s president.
European energy union: managing modern challenges
Views: 19In the newly published European “State of the Energy Union Report-2024”, the EU-wide efforts in managing unprecedented challenges in the EU-wide energy policy are described providing the member states with necessary political and regulatory means for pursuing the clean energy transition and laying the foundations for renewed economic growth and competitiveness.
AI factories to facilitate continental collaborative framework
Views: 20The EU’s intention is to acquire “the best place in the world for trustworthy AI”, as the Commission has noted recently. Thus, the so-called AI factories will bring together vital ingredients for successful AI’s industry: i.e. computing power, data and talented researchers. The “factories” will assist the AI developers “train their large generative AI […]
EU-wide competitiveness: challenges and perspectives in Draghi report
Views: 87The former European Central Bank president revealed his long awaited (with about four hundred pages) publication, the so-called Draghi Report. Main report’s message is to invest in “prospective growth” patterns to increase the EU-wide low presently productivity and avoid “slipping behind” the US and China. Present development period is described as the EU’s “existential […]
African perspectives: using progressive political economy
Views: 24According to some experts, the African continent can achieve very rapid development in the next three-four decades; the same way China developed during 1980-2020, and India is doing progressively since the beginning of this century. These and other issues on African perspectives are revealed in prof. Sachs predictions in the recent Eurasia Review; these […]