Views: 55Both Europe and the world entered a new era of international commerce: as the result, many businesses would go bust while new companies and governance models emerge. Digital technologies are going to play a vital role in resolving this and other emerging crises facilitating rapid change’s adaptation in political economies and governance.
Category: Political-economy
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AI’s “continental plan”: Europe heads toward global digital leadership
Views: 21The European Union has just adopted this April the “AI Continent Action Plan” in view of positioning the Union as an AI global partner. The EU’s main leverage in this endeavor is through the legal and managerial means as presently, around 85% of all AI systems remain unregulated and not subject to any rules; […]
Tariff’s war: effects for the world and the EU
Views: 33Several issues appeared this spring with the US intentions to impose additional tariffs on imported goods from tens of countries around the world, including the EU-27. These tariffs were called coercion: i.e. the economic coercion occurs in situations where a third country attempts to pressure the EU and/or Union’s member states into making a […]
EU Circular Economy Action Plan: twin approach for the next decade
Views: 37The European Commission has taken several initiatives to streamline the circularity concept into the member states’ policy developments across different areas (mainly in waste management) since the first decade of this century. The European circularity approach embodied in action plans, involves two stages in its evolution: first plan in 2015 and the second one […]
Reacting to emerging crises: new EU-wide preparedness strategy
Views: 314The Commission announced recently the Preparedness Union Strategy for the EU states to prevent and react to emerging threats and crises. The plan is a response to the ongoing poly-crisis the EU faces; hence, the strategy focuses on an integrated all-hazards approach, a whole-of-government approach, which brings together all relevant actors, across all governance’s […]
Recent European Social Dialogue: the tripartite social summit
Views: 288After the adoption of a new Pact for a European Social Dialogue, the EU-wide social summit took place recently (19 March, 2025). The Tripartite Summit is a forum for dialogue between the EU institutions, the member states and the social partners; the summit’s main theme was “Bringing Europe back on track in a challenging […]
New EU initiatives for investment and innovation
Views: 269Offering the EU citizens broader access to capital markets and better financing options for companies can foster citizens’ wealth, while boosting the EU-wide economic growth and competitiveness. Firstly, the households will have more opportunities to invest in capital markets; secondly, businesses will have easier access to capital to innovate, grow and creative employment.
The EU maintains coordinated policies to protect consumers online and offline
Views: 10On the World Consumer Rights Day (15 March) the Commission underlines the need to ensure proper consumers’ rights implementation and enforcement, improving digital fairness through and addressing existing gaps. Efficient consumer policy can make a tangible difference in people’s lives and help ensure a level playing field for businesses, showing the added value of […]
The EU and US in a trade war: sanctions and countermeasures
Views: 39This March, the US imposed tariffs of up to 25 percent on imports of steel, aluminium and certain products containing steel and aluminium from the EU; in response, the Commission is launching a series of countermeasures to protect European businesses, workers and consumers from the impact of these unjustified trade restrictions.
Renewable hydrogen in accelerating the EU’s green transition
Views: 120The establishment of a binding Union renewable energy target for 2030 was aimed to continue encouraging the development of technologies which produce renewable energy (including hydrogen) and provide certainty for investors. The EU-wide target would leave greater flexibility for the member states to meet their greenhouse gas reduction targets in the most cost-effective manner […]