Views: 6European 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 […]
Category: Legislation
European economy: facing stagnation period
Views: 38The European Business Intelligence (EBI) issued recently a new report examining the EU’s structural economic transformations during last two decades, and “contextualizing” European “relative decline in the global economic weight”, with the consequential implications for competitiveness, resilience and sovereignty. The EU’s future prosperity depends on “linking competitiveness with sovereignty”: i.e. the EU must transform […]
Deeper integration in the EU’s financial markets: new Commission’s measures
Views: 29In the beginning of December 2025, the Commission adopted a comprehensive package of measures designed to remove barriers and unlock the full potential of the EU single market for financial services. The package is a central component of the savings and investments union (SIU) strategy aiming to create a more integrated, efficient and competitive […]
European healthcare: AI approaches through new initiatives
Views: 74Healthcare systems in the EU-27 (and around the world) are facing complex challenges, including rising “cure-demand” due to aging population, increasing numbers of chronic and complex medical conditions, growing operating costs and shortages of the healthcare workforce. However, the AIs and other digital technologies are already having stronger potentials in addressing these challenges and […]
EU digital agenda: simplification issues and new digital wallets
Views: 65It is expected that European corporate community – from companies and factories to start-ups, would spend less time on administrative work and compliance. At the same time, they will have more time innovating and scaling-up, thanks to the European Commission’s new digital package, involving the so-called “digital wallets”.
European digital single market: new report
Views: 43One of the initial steps towards regulating the European digital transition was the so-called “directive on electronic commerce”, adopted twenty years ago; for the then 15 EU member states and the EEA countries. Then, the Regulation has been approved in 2022 on the presently known “digital single market” (DSM); the newly Commission’s published a […]
Delivering on European better regulation and effective implementation agenda
Views: 64The EU Commissioners’ annual progress reports are covering the half-year’s period in 2025 and are focusing on delivering feasible results. E.g. in the cohesion policy, the report covers three parts, on: simplification, implementation support, and enforcement; and report’s annex outlines concrete ways forward in the context of EU cohesion policy. Besides, important is the […]
EU’s “Savings & Investment Union”: boosting banks and insurers’ equity investments
Views: 87The Commission has adopted two measures to support the institutional investors’ essential role (such as banks and insurers) in financing the EU and the member states’ economies. These measures deliver on the roadmap set out in the Savings and Investments Union (SIU) strategy and contribute to the EU’s broader objectives of supporting private investment, […]
AI models in social science: digital algorithms in practice
Views: 206Numerous actively evolving AI deployment models in Europe and around the world are moving from the initial emerging stage to a wide range of social science’s sectors. There are already AI-ML algorithmic models and platforms developed specifically to and/or adapted for most active and demanding social/natural sciences’ fields. It is well worth mentioning some […]
European AI Act controversies: problems in investments and personal data
Views: 253European experts’ community and officials, e.g. the former Italian PM and ECB President Mario Draghi’s views (basically expressed in a report in Autumn 2024) are of the opinion that recently adopted the EU-wide rules on AI legislation “should be paused” until all direct, indirect and potential “drawbacks are assessed”. However, present EU strategy is […]