EU-wide competitiveness: challenges and perspectives in Draghi report

Views: 87The 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: 24According 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 […]

New “strategic dialogue” on European agriculture: final outcomes

Views: 32Launched 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 […]

Fishing in the Baltic Sea: European regulations

Views: 48Following scientific assessment, the European Commission adopted new proposals for the fishing opportunities around the Baltic Sea in 2025; the assessment indicated a “complicated situation” for several fisheries in the region. For example, the proposal includes total allowable catches and quotas for nine out of the ten stocks managed by the EU in the […]

Global Higher Education Sustainability Initiative

Views: 40The High-Level Political Forum on sustainable development, HLPF is the central global platform for follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs and rethinking higher education for sustainable future. Recent US Project-2025 initiates some actions to facilitate educational reforms.

European and global agro-food situation: expected perspectives

Views: 21Well-functioning European and international agricultural commodity markets will remain important for food security in Europe and around the world. Besides, sustainable rural communities can benefit from participation in these markets and global agro-food value chains. The world-wide agro-challenges are also formulated at the end of the article. 

Renewables in the European Union’s energy mix

Views: 36An integrated EU energy market is the most efficient way to ensure secure, sustainable and affordable energy supplies in the member states. Due to common energy market rules and cross-border infrastructure, energy can be produced in one EU country and delivered to consumers in another. Boosting competition, improving the renewables and allowing consumers to […]

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, […]

Contemporary digital currency issues: future perspectives

Views: 22Digital technologies and expanding financial markets have generated during last couple of years viable discussions around the world about new types of digital currencies, DC. The debates encompass complex issues of new types of assets, new financial service providers and various forms of regulation. Several interconnected issues have appeared to affect the DC’s development […]

CMU and financial market’s perspectives: infringement procedures

Views: 24The European Commission is planning to hold an EU-wide discussion on capital markets union issues, which will take place against the background of the capital markets union’s objectives, as well as the urgent regional problems in competitiveness and preservation of financial stability. The discussions will bring together market participants across the entire spectrum: e.g. […]