Views: 12The European Commission and the Council Presidents’ message at the recent G7 meeting in mid-June were three-fold: a) to address the structural challenges of the global economy; b) to focus on crises affecting Europe and around the world; and c) the digital transition and AI issues. Below is a short version of the EU’s […]
Category: EU in global governance
European complex security issues: recent EPC-Forum’s accounts
Views: 18The European Policy Centre’s second Economic Security Forum in Brussels (BESF2026) concluded recently with a clear message: Europe must rely on a creative economic resilience as the global fragmentation deepens. During two days, leaders, policymakers and industry experts examined how to diversify supply chains, secure critical technologies and reduce vulnerabilities linked to trade shocks […]
Digital sovereignty within global and European context
Views: 54The digital sovereignty (DS), principally, is the ability of a state (on a national level and/or the group of states, globally) to independently control its “digital dimension” and perspectives; i.e. in citizens’ data, hardware, software codes and standards. The European DS initiative is presently seriously vulnerable due to lack of its own hyperscalers; hence, […]
Europe in the global digital transition: basic features
Views: 31The backlog of the EU-wide digital regulatory facilities already includes over 50 various directives and regulations, united into the so-called “big digital acts”. The digital “regulatory burden” covers numerous socio-economic and corporate sectors; hence, it is both quite complicated and controversial for consumers and governance: e.g. to navigate in the “sea of digital rules”, […]
The ABC of the digital sovereignty: from concept and structure to management and resilience. Book review
Views: 50 The European continent, as well as other parts of the world, is living through the digital revolution and a worldwide race to shape the AI future: these technologies are transforming the ways people live, work and govern their economies. The vital issues are not only how to finance European technological sovereignty […]
European Union announces plans for the “digital sovereignty”
Views: 252The European Commission proposed the “tech sovereignty package” to strengthen the EU-wide digital autonomy and resilience. The package includes a set of measures to strengthen Europe’s capacity in semiconductors, artificial intelligence, cloud and open source. Besides, the package includes two legislative proposals: a) the Chips Act 2.0, and b) the Cloud and AI Development […]
Global digital competition in space: the EU’s “satellite’s cloud services”
Views: 43Major global powers are constantly exploring space both in communication and in facilitating the digital transition: the priorities varied among the states, but the trend is obvious. For example, the EU has introduced the sovereignty’s concept in its cloud procurement, with the aim of advancing the digital transition, while setting a benchmark for secure, […]
Strengthening the EU-wide digital intelligence tools
Views: 35The EU’s foreign policy service is seeking to expand its intelligence analysis to “cement its position” as the European “conduit for classified information”. The initiative followed Commission’s attempt in 2025 to set its own intelligence collection operation; the member states were against it. As part of the EU’s general security strategy, the European External […]
World-wide digital services’ providers and public governance: some examples
Views: 42There is presently huge cloud management platforms, e.g. the “governance’s digital technology’s structures” (the so-called GovTech systems), which include numerous already popular software companies. Among main digital-type politico-economic functions are: policing analytics, budgeting, predictive governance, urban management and welfare systems, etc. At a critical time, the national governance structures are becoming “algorithmically mediated”; hence, […]
Global trends in education policies: the European effects
Views: 80The UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report (launched in March 2026) and the Higher Education Global Trends Report (launched in this May) highlighted a worsening education crisis characterized by stalled access and widening economic inequalities. The reports provide important data that can assist the EU policy makers to guide higher education systems and policies at […]