Views: 33According to the EU basic law, the European Commission is capable of borrowing on the international capital markets (on behalf of the EU) to finance EU integration programs. The EU has already a well-established name in debt securities markets, with a track record of bond issuances over the past 40 years. Borrowing by syndicated […]
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EU budget for 2025: pursuing European priorities
Views: 24The 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 […]
Digital transition and European financial market perspectives
Views: 22Modern 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 […]
European industrial strategy: new incentives for decarbonized future
Views: 157European competitiveness in the world is a multi-facet phenomenon comprising several sectors in the member states’ political economy’s models. BusinessEurope is concentrating on industrial transformation, energy issues, investments, renewables, etc. For example, recent conference in Denmark was devoted to a new EU-wide industrial strategy with strategic reviews of EU energy and climate policies.
Sustainable investment for the European competitiveness
Views: 18The European Commission presented recently an interim evaluation of the EU-wide main investment program called InvestEU, which is designed to facilitate better access to finance both for companies and the Union’s common priorities. Halfway through its lifetime, the InvestEU program has already revealed €218 billion in additional investments: i.e. this way the InvestEU plays […]
European Commission’s infringement decisions: new package
Views: 39The 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 […]
European green transformation: restricting PFAS
Views: 26Presently 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 “strategic dialogue” on European agriculture: final outcomes
Views: 35Launched 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 […]
The signs of “political capitalism” in Europe: Italian initiatives
Views: 34The 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 […]
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, […]