Europe for Africa: a package of assistance

Views: 25The 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. 

“New economics” vs. modernized political economy: comments on “the call”

Views: 160At 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. […]

Global “Pact for the Future”: what is there for Europe?

Views: 25During the UN summit this September, the heads of state and government adopted the Pact for the Future, which will serve as a guiding global commitment –including 56 actions – to address pressing international issues, accelerate the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, and revive multilateralism. The Pact’s optimal realisation will need serious reforms both […]

Renewables in Europe: refreshing priorities

Views: 44In 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: 30During 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 […]

EU-wide competitiveness: challenges and perspectives in Draghi report

Views: 94The 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: 28According 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 […]

European and global security: a complicated issue

Views: 21At the recent European conference on global security in Prague (Globsec-24), Commission President urged the participants “to be on guard and refocus attention on security dimension” in national political economies. Modern complex security involves new facets in changing economics and politics, e.g. in “navigating” climate change and “critical technologies”, cybersecurity and other hybrid threats.  

Triple approach to modern political economy: new patterns through ESG

Views: 40Since 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, […]

Financial markets in Europe and the US: facing digital challenges

Views: 21Digitalisation 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.