Views: 66Sufficient energy resources (like numerous fossil fuels, gas and/or oil, etc.) have always been vital for national political economy. As soon as energy serves certain interests in national, regional and political dimensions, the best way in energy policy is energy security. Recent EU’s politico-economic decision to avoid crises connected to logistics’ disruptions in energy […]
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
Housing taxes in Europe and the world: facing fundamental reforms
Views: 58Taxation issues concerning residential property are among most vital for citizens: housing is the main asset for most households, it plays an important role for the middle class, with owner-occupied housing representing on average 60% of middle-class wealth. Unprecedented growth in house prices over the last three decades has made access to the housing […]
Modernising European higher education (part I)
Views: 59The EU provides states with both advice and support for high quality and inclusive education. These efforts are aimed at giving students urgently needed knowledge and skills for adequate response to new challenges affected by globalisation and technological change. These challenges are to be incorporated into national education policies in order to tackle the […]
Czech Presidency in the Council: delivering the EU’s common priorities
Views: 59Three main topics are in the Czech’s Presidency complex motto: “Europe as a task: Rethink, Rebuild, Repower”. To implement the motto’s idea, the Czech Republic has five main priorities during the Council Presidency: ramification of Russia-Ukraine war, energy security, strengthening defense/cybersecurity, resilience of the European economy and democratic values. The overall Presidency’s idea, however, […]
EU “taxonomy”: measures in clean transition and sustainability
Views: 44One of the EU’s main present objectives is to reach climate neutrality in the member states; hence, appropriate and complex political and legal means shall be taken by national governance in order to decouple from external use of fossil fuels and reduce pollution in the European accelerated “clean transition”. Taxonomy, as a new EU […]
Integration vs. balancing: sustainable growth in European and national priorities
Views: 38Fruitful cooperation among several states when history, culture, traditions, etc. are seemingly quite different is deemed to be a rather complicated issue. Initially, this process in Europe has been summed-up under the terms of integration and cohesion. Presently, the global challenges make the process more complex through inclusion of political, economic, social, environmental and […]
Most livable cities in Europe and the world: hints for city’s strategists
Views: 59The Global Livability Index is an annual report made by the Economist Intelligence Unit. The latest 2022-Index has revealed top ten cities in the world; curiously enough, five best cities to live in are in Europe…
Tourism in EU: vital socio-economic sector facing modern challenges
Views: 55Perspective tourism and travel has to follow three main directions: be resilient, digital and sustainable; however, not all EU member states ready for such challenges. In June 2022, the Commission prepared an analysis of key figures and trends in European tourism, as well as existing and perspective ICT and digital tools in modern tourism’s […]
Environmental protection: globally and in Europe
Views: 33Environmental global community celebrates these days the United Nations Environmental Program’s (UNEP) 50th anniversary. Global environmental governance system, regardless of all positive intentions, still lacks necessary strengths and capabilities to deal properly with one of the most complex and urgent problem. Some comparisons between the UNEP and EU on these issues can help to […]
Regional and local authorities in adaptation to climate change
Views: 31This June, new EU states’ regional and local authorities joined European adaptation measures to climate change within the “Mission Implementation Platform”, which will be operational in early 2023. The regional entities will get assistance in developing pathways towards climate resilience while having access to the EU-climate data and methodologies for climate risk assessments; besides […]