Views: 77The Commission decided that the AI gigafactories across European states are going to be an integral part of its latest major push to accelerate EU-27 technological sovereignty and ambition of becoming the European AI Continent. Presently, the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has launched a call for tenders to select consortia that will build […]
Category: EU in global governance
Frontier AIs: towards European digital competitiveness and security
Views: 26The AI Office has published this July a report that summarises findings from over 100 experts on how the European Union can enhance its competitiveness, sovereignty and security in frontier AI. In the report, the AI Office highlights key insights from the AI Forum and related expert statements as the EU continues its drive […]
EU-China digital controversies: book review
Views: 37The collective manuscript prepared by the European Think-tank Network on China*) unites authors from numerous EU and foreign states (the UK and China). The report analyses the China’s rise to a global digital technology’s power, as well as its effect on the European strategies in the digital transition and in shaping innovations. The report […]
Trans-Atlantic digital divide: almost (im)possible solution
Views: 18The digital transition is actively proceeding on both sides of the Atlantic; though with a varied speed and different substantial ideology, as well. For example, the US-type process leans to liberal and free-market system, while the EU-type approach is more regulatory and security in essence. This article concentrates on some of the European digital […]
Borrowing through a syndicated transaction: assisting EU priorities in integration
Views: 21In the beginning of July, the European Commission raised another €11 billion of EU-Bonds in its 7th syndicated transaction for 2026. The funds raised are going to be used to support the EU’s political priorities, including a more competitive and resilient Europe, support to Ukraine and crucial investments in European defence. It seems that […]
EU in the world: reflections on the recent G7 summit in France
Views: 14The 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 […]
European complex security issues: recent EPC-Forum’s accounts
Views: 25The 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: 57The 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: 34The 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: 61 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 […]