Views: 281The 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 […]
Category: EU in global governance
Global digital competition in space: the EU’s “satellite’s cloud services”
Views: 47Major 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: 50The 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: 49There 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: 115The 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 […]
European political community: additional facet in the “European idea”
Views: 47The European Political Community, EPC is an intergovernmental forum aimed to facilitate political dialogue about the future of Europe; it was created four years ago as a “renewed effort” to redefine and expand the “European idea” beyond the existing frameworks, by fostering cooperation among European nations and states. Proposed by the French President, the […]
In need of financial resources: European Union’s borrowing on global markets
Views: 43The European Commission is empowered by the EU Treaties to borrow from the international capital markets on behalf of the European Union. The EU is a well-established name in debt securities markets, with a strong track record of successful bond issuances over the past 40 years. The Commission presently intends to issue €10 billion […]
Global digital proliferation: uneven AI’s adaptation
Views: 70The so-called global adoption of the AIs models -some loosely call it diffusion- has experienced an exponential growth during 2025: about one in six people worldwide are presently using GenAI tools. It is a remarkable progress for the digital technologies; however, the digital divide is still a stumbling block in the digital proliferation through […]
Globalisation and European integration: facing realities
Views: 55Globalisation process is a complicated issue: there are those who benefit from globalization and those who face its direct costs. Fraying social safety nets in wealthy countries, not to mention technological advances that allowed manufacturing firms to reduce their labor forces, added to workers’ woes. If managed effectively, the “new globalization” can still live […]
Facilitating European strategic technologies: four priority sectoral development
Views: 62The EU-wide Strategic Technologies Platform, STEP has celebrated its second anniversary with the record achievements for the development and manufacturing of critical technologies. Since its inception in March 2024, STEP managed to mobilise about €29 billion of funding across the EU-wide financial programs to support technologies in four priority sectors and associated skills: a) […]