Views: 18The flagship summits at the end of 2026, concentrated on focal points in the European digital agenda for the last months of the year, including International AI Summit (14 October, in Dublin Ireland), AI in Science Summit (15 October in Dublin), Apply AI Summit (17 November, in Brussels and online), and the Digital Talent […]
Category: Labor market
Labor mobility in Europe: new package of measures
Views: 23Presently, about 14 million European citizens reside and work permanently in another EU member state, including about two million cross-border workers and 3.64 million posted workers. At the same time, the Eurobarometer survey notes that about 18 percent of respondents said they, in principle, would like to work abroad. The newly released labor mobility […]
Moldova’s political economy: business through challenges and opportunities (part II)
Views: 44The second article from the Moldova Business Week venue is reveling the country’s economic recovery and resilience process after a period of shocks following the initial years of war in the neighboring Ukraine. Additionally, the national growth pattern has been heavily supported by the EU’s integrational-type financial support package and foreign direct investment equity […]
The European “One Europe-One Market” roadmap: Commission’s assessments
Views: 47The 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 […]
European “Pact for Skills”: recent accounts on employment and training
Views: 126The EU-wide “Pact for Skills”, adopted about five years ago, aims to facilitate public and private organisations and encourage them to make concrete commitments to upskilling employment forces and reskilling adults. The Pact is one of the flagship actions of the general European Skills Agenda; through these years, the pact has proved to be […]
Reforming European customs union
Views: 107Most ambitious and comprehensive EU Customs Union’s reform took place last time in summer 2023; it included such spheres as increasing trade volumes, especially in e-commerce, reducing fast-growing number of EU standards at the borders, and mitigating geopolitical realities and crises. However, the needs are still numerous: simplification of customs processes for business and […]
European social market economy model: the spirit of partnership
Views: 140The EU governance is paying closer attention to the economic developmental priorities, such as revising the age-old concepts, completing the EU’s “single market”, investing in skills and quality jobs, etc. The spirit of partnership among employers, trade unions, governments and civil society is regarded presently as the European social model’s foundation, which reflects the […]
European food security: towards competitive agro-business
Views: 182The European future of farming and a competitive agro-food sector are key components of the continental-wide security and sovereignty. Hence, the EU institutions are “ready to act where needed”, as the Commission confirmed in its recent “Vision for agriculture and food”. And the EU will continue in the longer term to rigorously defend farmers’ […]
European strategy for consumers: Agenda-2030
Views: 91European regional consumer policy (EU-2030 Consumer Agenda), is aimed at “uniting” million consumers in the EU-wide single market; consumers contribute over 50 percent to the EU’s GDP through household spending. As consumers play essential role in the European economy, the agenda is enhancing consumers’ trust, ensuring legal clarity, bolstering enforcement and easing administrative burden […]
New European “bio- economy”: bonuses for the states and businesses
Views: 113The new idea looks like a big bio-chemical “revelation” in the continent: i.e. the Commission has unveiled recently its long-trailed plan to “turbocharge the EU’s bioeconomy”, which was worth €2.7 trillion in 2023 and employed about 17+ million people (around 8% of the EU jobs). As the EU officials believe, the new sector has […]