Views: 123The second meeting of the Strategic Dialogue on the Future of the European Automotive Industry took place in the beginning of March 2025 in a “good, intense and productive discussion”, noted the Commission President. However, she added “it was clear now that it is time for action on a number of priorities”.
Category: Political-economy
including the EU and the member states political economy’s analytical monitoring, as well as researching inherent connections between the political decision-making and their economic implementation
Clean industrial deal: new EU-wide initiative to manage critical sectors
Views: 112European Clean Industrial Deal adopted recently is the EU-wide business plan to accelerate decarbonisation and competitiveness for the European industrial sectors by boosting clean tech innovation and reinforcing regional resilience. The EU-wide Clean Industrial Deal is supported by the European €100 billion investment package.
Managing financial risks in the European Union
Views: 29During last five years, the EU’s budget has been increasingly relying on different financial instruments to leverage on the EU-wide budget power to assure more efficient use of public resources. Borrowing and lending operations and budgetary guarantees have supported investments and economic recovery in the member states, while providing support for the EU international […]
Environmental law and justice in Europe: Commission launches a discussion
Views: 104The European Commission has launched a consultation concerning the draft amendments to the State aid Implementing Regulation 794/2004 and to the State aid Best Practices Code (BPC) in preparation to new rules on access to environmental justice following the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee’s findings revealed in several cases.
European circular economy: strategy and policy-making
Views: 32Circular economy (CE) has been for long regarded as a vital component of the EU-wide economic security, competitiveness and sustainability. The CE in European political guidance occupies an important place combining such sectors as environment and water resilience, renewables and economic development, to name a few.
Boosting growth: competitiveness compass as the message to the EU states’ governance
Views: 266For decades the EU-wide corporate growth models were based generally on cheap goods (presumably from China) as well as affordable energy with favorable prices (from Russia) and “partially outsourcing security and investment”, as the Commission President noted recently. Thus, the Commission calls on the member states’ leaders to “help turn around the region’s sluggish […]
Transition to carbonized economy: “correcting” EU priorities
Views: 19There are already serious reservations concerning the EU’s net-zero growth, as well as about “indefinite delay” of corporate sustainability rules and a “far-reaching simplification”. These and other issues were mentioned recently by Von der Leyen, Commission President in Davos. However, some EU officials in headline commitments note that in the context of the Green […]
Developmental transition: global-national priorities through ESG and AI approaches
Views: 20Modern national growth concepts tend to include the ESG approaches, which are composed of environmental, social and governance components. Within this triangle, the governance often becomes a priority, particularly in the business sectors, in digital transition and data management. For the whole process to be successful, “managing” existing volumes and complexities of information becomes […]
European economic policy: convergence and alignment with the Commission’s agenda
Views: 29Commission’s officials acknowledge that productivity in the EU “has been slow for too long” and the euro “is threatening European competitiveness and hinders ability to invest”. Besides, debt levels remain high and in perspective “public spending faces growing pressures from defence issues to ageing population”. The member states agreed on urgent and coordinated policy […]
European security strategy: member states’ outbound investments to strengthen economy
Views: 18The European Union is one of the world’s leaders in both providing and attracting investments; however, modern changes in geopolitics require a profound understanding of all the potential risks involved. Hence, the EU is assessing the region’s outbound investment in key technology areas – semiconductors, AI and quantum technologies – in order to identify […]