Views: 98Countries around the Baltic Sea are both a vital force in resolving the EU-wide regional issues and in active part in the global efforts to tackle modern challenges. The 14th EUSBSR forum’s discussions were rotating around regional security, sustainability, connectivity and prosperity. These issues need closer governments’ attention, innovative strategies and additional efforts in […]
Category: Modern EU
European digital decade: progress and perspectives
Views: 79At the end of September 2023, the Commission published first “Digital Decade Report” revealing EU’s progress towards digital transformation as set out in the “Digital Decade Program-2030”. The report highlights the need to accelerate and deepen the EU-wide efforts in policy measures and investment in digital technologies, skills and infrastructures. Besides, it includes concrete […]
The 14th annual EUSBSR forum: resolving modern challenges
Views: 56The EUSBSR-forum in Riga (4-6.10.2023) has in its agenda four main goals: exchange of best practices of cooperation, stronger integration within the Baltic Sea Region and beyond, forming synergies between various priority areas, and creating links between the strategy and the public. In the forum’s background will be the EU new Cohesion Report (issued […]
Transformations in the EU’s political economy: facing modern crises
Views: 26Global and European challenges fundamentally changing present political economy’s patterns in modern states’ governance. This article attracts attention to some most vital aspects in political economy’s transformations already initiated by the European Union institutions, such as “green deal”, competitiveness, digitalisation and energy.
Educational quality and policy transformations
Views: 25In the mid-term of SDGs implementation, education providers in Europe and around the world attract attention to qualitative content in dealing with sustainability issues. The process is complicated due to the fact that modern approaches to sustainability are inherently based on bridging existing gaps between rapid development of natural, exact and social sciences, technology […]
European “state-of -the Union” address: dealing with modern challenges
Views: 15Delivering annual “state-of-the Union”, SOTEU-23 address to the European Parliament on 13 September Commission President claimed that her office had kept over 90 percent of the pledges made about four years ago in the then program for a green, digital and geopolitical Europe. She also revealed the future in which a Union of nations, […]
European economic forecast: summer-2023
Views: 40The European Commission published this September summer-23 economic forecast: main outcome is that the EU-27 economy continues to grow, although with reduced momentum, down to 0.8% in 2023, from 1% projected in the spring forecast and to 1.4% in 2024, from 1.7%. The forecast also “corrects” growth in the euro area to 0.8% in […]
Financing “green transition”: additional EU’s assistance
Views: 11Due to lack of resources for a proper national “green transition“ and climate mitigation, several EU member states (i.e. Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia) received recently sufficient support from the EU investment facilities. The amounts disbursed in June 2023 are bringing the total disbursements on “green transition” from […]
Securing sustainable future: UN SDG Summit this September
Views: 17The United Nations will convene the SDG Summit during 18-19 September 2023 in New York, during the General Assembly’s high-level week. With the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at midpoint, world leaders will carry out a comprehensive review of the 17 SDGs, respond to the impact of multiple and interlocking crises facing the world […]
EU long-term-2027 budget: two years old revenue reform process
Views: 20With the set of new own resources and other reforms, the EU institutions would ensure that the European’s next generation will truly benefit from a set of the present transitional measures. As part of the political agreement on the 2027 long-term budget and the NextGenerationEU recovery instrument, the new reform package is expected to […]