Views: 45The EU Single Market (formally established in 1993), is a unified economic area where goods, services, capital and people move freely without borders or tariffs. The concept is often called the “four freedoms,” as it allows EU citizens live and work within the bloc’s 27 member states as a “single domestic” economy. The new […]
Category: EU law & governance
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 […]
European “cloud” service: the idea of strengthening digital sovereignty
Views: 96The European Commission intends to strengthen the EU’s digital sovereignty by awarding a tender that allows EU institutions, bodies, offices and agencies to procure sovereign cloud services for up to €180 million over 6 years. The four awarded providers are from the European digital companies in Germany, France, Luxembourg and Belgium.
The ideas of “simplification” and omnibus: challenging facilities
Views: 44Over two years ago, Mario Draghi and Enrico Letta – both the former Italian Prime Ministers – composed two reports on European competitiveness issues; the reports have since been repeatedly cited and heavily criticized lately. Besides, the reports outcomes have been recently consolidated into the so-called omnibus packages aimed at removing main regulatory stumbling […]
European energy and renewables: ambitions vs. realities
Views: 37Fossil fuels, such as coal, gas and oil are rapidly declining in the EU energy mix, dropping below 39% of electricity production in early 2026, with wind and solar reaching roughly 30% and becoming the primary power source in some states. Despite this shift, fossil fuels still make up significant portions of energy in […]
Facilitating competitiveness: EU’s additional efforts
Views: 36At the informal meeting of Heads of State and/or Government in Greece this April, the President of the Republic of Cyprus as the rotating Presidency of the Council of the European Union, the Presidents of the European Parliament and the European Commission, signed the “One Europe, One Market Roadmap”. The agreement on the roadmap […]
Regional dimension in European research and innovation
Views: 31The EU institutions approved the so-called Joint Action Plan, JAP to enhance the role of cities and regions in the European-wide research and innovation, R&I. Under the plan, the Commission and Committee of the Regions, Cor would collaborate in reinforcing the regional dimension of the EU-wide R&Is. The JAP will aim to support the […]
Digital technology perspectives: AIs roles in economics and decision-making
Views: 44The AIs are reshaping and revolutionising political economy’s patterns by driving efficiency, innovative decision-making, as well as facilitating new business models in growth sectors and industries. There are already apparent positive shifts in AIs deployment through such technologies as the Internet of Things (IoT), machine learning and big data analytics. Besides, new and exciting […]
Facilitating European strategic technologies: four priority sectoral development
Views: 56The 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) […]
European nuclear energy option: the case of France
Views: 44The European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation to assess whether public support that France plans to grant for the construction and operation of six new nuclear reactors is in line with EU State aid rules. Under the EU Treaties, the member states are free to determine their energy mix; hence, France has chosen […]