Views: 76In March 2024, the Commission proposed a series of actions to boost biotechnology and biomanufacturing in the member states. In the Commission communication, existing challenges and barriers are identified in the process of “building the future with nature”; some other measures are visualized coped in line with the EU-wide long-term competitiveness program. These twin-sectors […]
Category: Sustainability
covering main UN SDGs implementation in the EU states, European “green deal”, as well as circular economy’s aspects and “green growth” in the national development
Practical guidance to the AI’s future: Scandinavian initiative
Views: 25Artificial intelligent experts, business leaders and policy makers are governing at the Future Talent Summit in Stockholm (June 18-19) to discuss the AI’s impact on numerous social, corporate, educational and cultural issues. It is regarded as the most influential AI conference this year in Europe and the world with regarding a “paradigm shift” in […]
EU’s external trade: cooperation agreement with New Zealand
Views: 73The EU-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement is aimed at removing customs duties and bureaucracy that European firms face when dealing with export-import relations between the EU member states and New Zealand. External trade is an exclusive European Commission’s competence.
European new governance framework: reshuffling political economy’s patterns
Views: 82The 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 […]
Digital platforms in Europe: the size matters
Views: 58There 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: 36The 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: 56Recent 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: 36Four 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: 26The 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: 31European 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 […]