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 […]
Category: European integration’s future
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 […]
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 […]
EU securitization rules: challenges and solutions
Views: 18Modern trends in the digital finance have made some transformations in the existing EU-wide securitization process and regulations. As an important element of well-functioning financial markets, a sound structured securitisation becomes an important channel for diversifying funding sources and properly allocating possible risks within the EU’s financial system.
European growth strategy: facing EU-US competition challenges
Views: 26Perspectives of European competitiveness and empowering the EU-wide single market have been the most vital issues in the European political economy. Several times during almost quarter of this century, the Commission asked external experts to draft feasible perspective strategies; hopefully the latest two will help although fundamental differences in approaches to growth are difficult […]
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 […]