Views: 87The new EU-wide economic governance framework is designed to assist the member states in dealing with the modern challenges and accomplishing the recovery/resilience process. Hence, the reform underlines two indispensable and mutually reinforcing directions: the prudent fiscal strategies (as well as investments) and transitional efforts that enhance sustainable and resilient political economies. Our comment […]
Category: Modern EU
Remote work in the European context: following modern challenges
Views: 88The European employment rules are evolving in line with the modern digital challenges: thus, recently the EU introduced some legal means applied both to remote working aspects as well as addressing certain aspects linked to the right to disconnect.
European “health union”: EU-wide approaches and solutions
Views: 34The Commission introduced recently a double strategy in approaching to EU-wide public health integration, i.e. concerning supply of medicines to citizens in the member states “at all times and at affordable prices”; the strategy included both the regulatory and industrial dimensions. Besides, the Critical Medicines Alliance announced last October is aimed at stimulating and […]
The fifth EU’s enlargement: “ever growing Union” and some expectations
Views: 45On 1 May 2004, the then Commission President R. Prodi pronounced the fifth and the largest in the EU’s history; since then, three more countries have joined the EU. Presently, the desire to join the EU is growing: the Western Balkans wanted to be a “part of the family” and negotiations with Ukraine and […]
Digital platforms in Europe: the size matters
Views: 50There are presently more than twenty digital platforms and search engines in the EU-27; they all have to comply with the general obligations under the digital law. Some main general provisions include the obligations for online marketplaces to: a) ensure the traceability of traders on their platforms; b) design their interface to facilitate traders’ […]
EU-wide priorities at the end of the Commission’s term…
Views: 32The Commission President underlined several priorities that have been valid at the end of the Commission’s College five years’ term: public investments in strategic sectors (with the stress on commodities), reducing the cost of energy, addressing the labor and skills shortage, and facilitating external trade.
“Energizing” issues in modern political economy: cross-continental perspectives
Views: 59Recent conference organized by the Green Institute titled “Energizing Futures: Bridging Traditional Practices with Modern Innovations” was devoted to numerous issues vital both for African and European continents. As to the former, the analysis of traditional and modern practices in energy usage was somehow dominating; for the latter, these were the issues of progressive […]
Consolidating sustainable and long-term growth in Europe
Views: 31Four main areas of actions by the EU institutions and the member states have been underlined at the recent EU summit: a) efficient use of available financial resources, b) effective and affordable energy facilities for households and businesses, c) addressing the lack of skills that affects European socio-economic development, and d) competitive external trade […]
Horizon Europe: work program to solve continental challenges
Views: 25The European Commission intends to maximize the impact of research and innovation investments for the success of the green and digital transition – both in the EU-wide and in the member states. The novel initiatives under the EU Horizon Europe program represent important tools to solve some of the greatest challenges facing the states’ […]
European and global political economy: transformation efforts
Views: 28European states and the global partners are facing profound challenges to which national governments alone are unable to adequately respond, e.g. energy and climate, biodiversity and transport, sustainability and circular economy, to name a few. However, in dramatically altered global governance, all sorts of cooperation are becoming ever more difficult. Most governments in the […]