Views: 54The digital sovereignty (DS), principally, is the ability of a state (on a national level and/or the group of states, globally) to independently control its “digital dimension” and perspectives; i.e. in citizens’ data, hardware, software codes and standards. The European DS initiative is presently seriously vulnerable due to lack of its own hyperscalers; hence, […]
Category: Modern EU
Breaking barriers and the EU-2026 digital summit: from digital ambitions to competitiveness
Views: 18The outcomes of the recent European digital summit (9 June, 2026) and the main highlights in the global digital markets reflect the digital transition’s facets. As to Europe, its digital future depends on the corporate ability to adopt, trust and benefit from new technologies: hence, the summit connected economic competitiveness, AI, cybersecurity and digital […]
Europe in the global digital transition: basic features
Views: 31The backlog of the EU-wide digital regulatory facilities already includes over 50 various directives and regulations, united into the so-called “big digital acts”. The digital “regulatory burden” covers numerous socio-economic and corporate sectors; hence, it is both quite complicated and controversial for consumers and governance: e.g. to navigate in the “sea of digital rules”, […]
The ABC of the digital sovereignty: from concept and structure to management and resilience. Book review
Views: 50 The European continent, as well as other parts of the world, is living through the digital revolution and a worldwide race to shape the AI future: these technologies are transforming the ways people live, work and govern their economies. The vital issues are not only how to finance European technological sovereignty […]
European Union announces plans for the “digital sovereignty”
Views: 252The 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 […]
Strengthening the EU-wide digital intelligence tools
Views: 35The 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 […]
From the digital ambition to effective implementation: European strategic summits
Views: 21The digital transition is a hot issue among the EU institutions and the member states. Several digital “summits” are taking place in the second part of this year. This article attracts the readers’ attention to some of them revealing the general directions in the EU-wide perspective digital processes. Besides, some other events of importance […]
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 political community: additional facet in the “European idea”
Views: 45The 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: 38The 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 […]