Views: 77Rising global climate mitigation and environmental challenges are forcing businesses to actively implement imperative sustainable approaches and practices. The concept of “green entrepreneurship” has emerged as a pivotal instrument to manage environmentally responsible innovation and economic growth. One of the studies attracted our attention showing new parameters in green-growth theories and their practical implementation, […]
Month: December 2025
Stronger European economic sectors through simplification regulation’s packages
Views: 192After the year-round “strategic dialogues” with the member states and stakeholders, the Commission announced main focal points in the process of “simpler legislation” and regulations in socio-economic development. Below is the account of major legislative simplifications in political economies (as well as in corporate entities) reflected in the EU-wide drafted simplification strategy towards competitiveness, […]
European data analysis in socio-economic development and science
Views: 161 Recent EU’s industrial R&D investment scoreboard-2025 (published annually since 2004), provides data on economic and financial aspects of thousands world’s top R&D investors and the EU-based companies; it accounts for over 90% of global corporate-funded R&D. Such factors as slowing productivity, demographic challenges, rising energy costs and increased global competition are putting pressure […]
European biotechnology: new simplified legislative measures
Views: 149In mid-December 2025, the European Commission proposed an ambitious package of measures to improve the health of EU citizens, while ensuring the long-term resilience and competitiveness of the EU-wide health sector.
EU legislative priorities for 2026
Views: 870At the European Council on 18 December 2025, the joint legislative priorities of the EU institutions for 2026 have been signed by the President of the European Parliament (Roberta Metsola), Danish Prime Minister (Mette Frederiksen, representing the Danish Presidency of the Council of the European Union), and the President of the European Commission (Ursula […]
European health policy: combating cardiovascular diseases
Views: 80The new Commission’s initiative to combat cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), the so-called “safe hearts plan”, includes measures to combat such EU-wide illnesses as heart attacks, strokes, heart failures, abnormal heart rhythms and congenital heart diseases. As soon as the CVDs are having massive negative consequences for public health, including numerous socio-economic sectors, the Commission and […]
Towards resilient approaches to geopolitical transformations: the EU and US strategies
Views: 112Modern global challenges and geopolitical tensions have forced states and regions to “re-calibrate” their growth patterns and security policies. We suggest for our readers a digest of recent trends based on the EU (by researchers form Bruegel) and the US government’s strategies in drafting modernised approaches to internal and external developmental resilience.
New EU initiative to drive growth and prosperity in urban areas
Views: 104Presently, over half of global population resides in cities; in the EU-27 over 70 percent of people (about 340 million people) concentrates in the so-called “urban regions”; the figure is expected to reach almost 80 percent by 2050. The continent’s urban model allows cities of varying sizes to contribute meaningfully to territorial development and […]
European strategy for consumers: Agenda-2030
Views: 89European regional consumer policy (EU-2030 Consumer Agenda), is aimed at “uniting” million consumers in the EU-wide single market; consumers contribute over 50 percent to the EU’s GDP through household spending. As consumers play essential role in the European economy, the agenda is enhancing consumers’ trust, ensuring legal clarity, bolstering enforcement and easing administrative burden […]
AI in education: contemporary European issues
Views: 150The digital tools and opportunities offered by AI companies for the education providers and students have grown rapidly recently. Various AI tools/models have become a vital part of educators and policies; but the AI’s deployment varies widely among European education providers: some countries are cautious in approaches, others use AIs restrictively, while students are […]