Posts by Eugene Eteris:

European digital skills’ initiative: driving innovation and productivity

Views: 8The idea of digital skills academies is an important step towards ensuring EU leadership in digital and emerging technologies. Investing in advanced digital skills is a crucial driver for innovation and productivity; hence, the new initiative is responding to the demand for better cooperation and alignment with market needs. A year ago, the EU […]

AI in the legal profession: challenges and perspectives

Views: 12The article provides some basic although encouraging “notes” on legal professionals facing massive employment the AI models while remaining vigilant about existing challenges. Some lawyers are already praising the so-called general AI’s ability to handle routine attorney’s tasks, others pointed out inefficiencies stemming from a lack of standardized best practices.

The US approaches to AI: recent legal aspects

Views: 30In the beginning of 2025, the US Administration issued some executive orders, including recent President’s EO “Removing Barriers to American Leadership in AI” (adopted in January 2025). One part of this EO is called “Accelerating Federal Use of AI through Innovation, Governance and Public Trust”; it contains some risk management provisions, including AI impact […]

New era of global trade conflicts: AI in navigating businesses and governments

Views: 153Both Europe and the world entered a new era of international commerce: as the result, many businesses would go bust while new companies and governance models emerge. Digital technologies are going to play a vital role in resolving this and other emerging crises facilitating rapid change’s adaptation in political economies and governance. 

European guidance on using generative AI in science

Views: 25Among various directions in European integration concept, some new “unions” constantly appear: recent attempt aims at “integrating” a digital approach to science. It is called “Living guidance on responsible use of generative AI in research”, and is the second version adopted by the ERA Forum this April. The ERA’s “document” is aimed at eliminating […]

AI’s “continental plan”: Europe heads toward global digital leadership

Views: 37The European Union has just adopted this April the “AI Continent Action Plan” in view of positioning the Union as an AI global partner. The EU’s main leverage in this endeavor is through the legal and managerial means as presently, around 85% of all AI systems remain unregulated and not subject to any rules; […]

Comprehensive overview of state aid expenditures in the EU states

Views: 30Overall state aid expenditures EU-wide in 2023 dropped to €186.78 billion from €243.27 billion in 2022. The member states channeled 73% of funds towards such policy objectives as environmental protection and energy savings, research, circular development, innovation and regional development; in 2022, this share was 49%. However, the total amount of aid spent on […]

European zero-pollution ambition: complicated ways of progress

Views: 26Twice a year the EU European Commission’s Joint Research Center together with the European Environment Agency, EEA publishes a monitoring report on progress in the member states in achieving the EU’s zero-pollution targets according to the 2021 Zero Pollution Action Plan. It reveals future policies designed to support the zero-pollution ambition in reducing threat […]

Important contribution to AI as a “co-intelligent” partner: book review

Views: 269Can books on AI help us to comprehend the digital transition, or at least part of it? Many authors would certainly think so, though the question cannot be truly answered, as the impact of some books can only seldom be empirically proven. This is not the case of the Mollick’s book, as it is […]