Views: 589The European Commission has disbursed on 8 August 2025 a total of €42.8 billion to five EU states – Italy, Portugal, Cyprus, Malta and Spain – under the Recovery and Resilience Facility, the centerpiece of the NextGenerationEU plan. The disbursements are part of the Commission’s efforts to support the economic growth and resilience in […]
Category: Political-economy
including the EU and the member states political economy’s analytical monitoring, as well as researching inherent connections between the political decision-making and their economic implementation
Life expectancy in Europe and the world: latest assessments
Views: 1034Generally, Western European states are within 82-84 life expectancy’s range world-wide, while Eastern countries are within 75-79. For example, such small states as Monaco and San Marino in Europe are having the highest world-wide ranks at about 86-87, followed by Andora and Switzerland at 84. Sure enough, women are having higher life expectancy than […]
AI perspectives in transport sector: digital mobility
Views: 98Digital technologies, particularly AIs, are actively entering the transport sector. For example, a robotaxi (or robot taxi and robo-taxi) is a self-driving taxi or driverless car, as an autonomous vehicle (with the level of automation at 4-5) and operated for a ridesharing company. These transport facilities could have positive e.g. in traffic congestion and […]
Education and research systems to advance sustainability
Views: 162The University World News has explored recently the growing roles of universities and researchers in advancing global sustainability and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Recent review attracts attention to the United Nations High-Level Political Forum on sustainable development (HLPF2025), which took place in New York, US this July: the forum, among other issues, also […]
Employment in Europe through the digitalisation process
Views: 181The digital transition has important implications for the European employment conditions; the latter is closely connected to competitiveness: i.e. the use of advanced digital technologies and AI models in public/private sectors is seriously affecting the optimal levels of labour productivity. The digitalisation process that has taken place in the EU since 2008, has had […]
Cross-sectoral approach to global sustainability issues: research and innovation
Views: 186Sustainability Research and Innovation Congress, SRI2025 this June in the US, spotlighted vital pathways to sustainable solutions by sharing implementation strategies and successful approaches to critical sustainability issues. The SRI-event celebrated its fifth anniversary, provided opportunities to overcome existing hurdles in engagement, resourcing and numerous “disconnections” that still slowing perspective transition to the Sustainable […]
EU-wide budget’s draft for 2028-34: main winners and losers
Views: 422European Commission has officially proposed recently a draft of the 7-year multi-annual financial framework, MFF as the EU-27 common budget for 2028-34. It is structured along main categories of expenditures (‘headings’) and providing maximum amounts for each of them (“ceilings”). The Commission draft also includes a ‘flexibility instrument’ providing additional funds over some urgent […]
Digital aspects in the European energy sector: possible AI applications
Views: 86The European Commission has released recently (7 July 2025) a new report examining the ways the modern technologies and AI can facilitate the European energy system’s digital transformation and, at the same time, accelerate the transition to a regional climate neutrality. At the same time, the report underlines the perspectives in exploring the use […]
Discussing the EU long-term budget: facing modern challenges
Views: 64The timing to discuss the next EU multiannual financial framework, MFF is dreadful: facing a full-blown trade war with the US, tough period in the immigration issues, military conflicts around the world, etc. The budget is currently at €1.2 trillion: hence, all participants are “fighting tooth and nail” to protect their MFF’s share from […]
AI in the European agriculture: new Commission’s report
Views: 185Recently published Commission report explores the ways the artificial intelligence (AI) can support more sustainable and resilient agricultural practices in the EU member states. The report assesses the potential of AI-enabled decision-making support tools in helping farms increase efficiency, reduce inputs, as well as better manage risks, while identifying the barriers that currently hinder […]