Views: 47The High-Level Political Forum on sustainable development, HLPF is the central global platform for follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs and rethinking higher education for sustainable future. Recent US Project-2025 initiates some actions to facilitate educational reforms.
Category: Analytics
European and global agro-food situation: expected perspectives
Views: 25Well-functioning European and international agricultural commodity markets will remain important for food security in Europe and around the world. Besides, sustainable rural communities can benefit from participation in these markets and global agro-food value chains. The world-wide agro-challenges are also formulated at the end of the article.
Choosing leaders in the European political economy
Views: 18In less than ten days, the candidates for the most vital jobs in the European Commission for the coming five years shall be chosen; the final steps will follow after the “grilling” process in the European Parliament before the candidates assume their new positions and acquire their offices.
Renewables in the European Union’s energy mix
Views: 38An integrated EU energy market is the most efficient way to ensure secure, sustainable and affordable energy supplies in the member states. Due to common energy market rules and cross-border infrastructure, energy can be produced in one EU country and delivered to consumers in another. Boosting competition, improving the renewables and allowing consumers to […]
Triple approach to modern political economy: new patterns through ESG
Views: 44Since the appearance of the global sustainable development goals (SDGs) in 2015, some sectors of the global communities were searching for the most optimal ways in their implementation: the academic community and researchers suggested theoretical background, while the corporate one proposed some practical solutions. Among the latter there are the so-called ESG, i.e. environmental, […]
Contemporary digital currency issues: future perspectives
Views: 23Digital technologies and expanding financial markets have generated during last couple of years viable discussions around the world about new types of digital currencies, DC. The debates encompass complex issues of new types of assets, new financial service providers and various forms of regulation. Several interconnected issues have appeared to affect the DC’s development […]
EU directives’ complete and timely transposition: Commission’s actions
Views: 22European Commission adopted a package of infringement decisions due to the absence of communication by the EU states’ measures to transpose EU directives into national law. Almost all EU member states have not yet notified full transposition measures concerning two EU directives: a) in the field of climate mitigation (through the emission-trading system, ETS), […]
Financial markets in Europe and the US: facing digital challenges
Views: 22Digitalisation in financial markets around the world is rapidly growing. With the closer attention to two political economies and two biggest financial markets, i.e. that of the European Union and the United States of America, the comparative analysis sheds light to perspective trends in banking sector and digitalisation of financial services.
European political guidance in development: next five years
Views: 24After the present European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was re-elected for a second term in the office this July, she revealed the next EU-wide political guidelines for 2024-2029 and defined a set of collective objectives for the years to come with clear targets and priority areas. Facing the greatest challenges, the guidelines […]
Abuse of dominant position: the European approaches to increase competition
Views: 38The European Commission has launched a public consultation among all interested parties to discuss the draft guidelines on exclusionary abuses of dominant position; the previous guidelines adopted about two decades ago seemed quite outdated. Commission is planning to finalize the redrafted guidelines on “exclusionary abuses” on the basis of acquired comments by the end […]