Views: 29Presently 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 […]
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New Commission’s college is aimed at increasing regional competitiveness
Views: 44The 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: 26In 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: 28The 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: 101The 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: 31According 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 […]
New “strategic dialogue” on European agriculture: final outcomes
Views: 37Launched in 1962, the EU’s common agricultural policy, CAP has evolved through several amendments to keep in line with the latest developments in the sector; the CAP for 2023-2027 marks the sixth version of the policy. In the beginning of 2024 a new “strategic dialogue” on CAP’s future started; the dialogue, according to the […]
New Commission’s College team: the EU-wide “sectoral ministers”
Views: 38All EU-27 member states have made their candidates for the Commissioners’ position; and all of them, except Commission’s President (she was approved earlier) need to be approved by the European Parliament. Some countries have suggested two candidates (a man and a woman), as the Commission promised to have the gender equality: however, so far […]
Fishing in the Baltic Sea: European regulations
Views: 52Following scientific assessment, the European Commission adopted new proposals for the fishing opportunities around the Baltic Sea in 2025; the assessment indicated a “complicated situation” for several fisheries in the region. For example, the proposal includes total allowable catches and quotas for nine out of the ten stocks managed by the EU in the […]
The signs of “political capitalism” in Europe: Italian initiatives
Views: 39The Italian government has presented recently an analysis of the country’s economic relations with the “third world”, the move which some national experts dubbed as “political capitalism”. This new phenomenon is based on such priorities as, for example supporting national businesses and development both in the African private sector and Italian national economies towards […]