Views: 103As a key driver of socio-economic development, the energy system has a dual role as both determinant and solution to climate change. While fossil fuels production and consumption are responsible for about 90% of all CO2 emissions and more than 75% of GHG emissions, according to the UN in 2022-23, transitioning processes in the […]
Category: post-COVID research
European Parliament creates its own scientific research service
Views: 66A new idea to “equip the EU Parliament” with a scientifically-based service could not come at a better time: nearly 75 years after the signing of the initial European Communities’ founding Treaties (turning to presently Union of 27 states, with all its sub-unions), it is in serious trouble. But presently widely deployed numerous AI […]
Educational challenges: global and European dimension
Views: 288Celebration of this year’s International Day of Education, which takes place since 2018, was an opportunity to reveal global and European facilities to strengthen education as a public endeavor and “common good”, to steer the digital and green transitions, support teachers, safeguard the planet’s climate and unlock every person potential in contributing to common […]
The EU states are determined to formulate their recovery and resilience plans (RRPs)
Views: 304National recovery and resilience plans (RRPs) are and will be implemented with the sufficient EU’s financial support through the European Recovery and Resilience Facility. The latter is a key instrument in the “NextGenerationEU” program, which is the European plan towards states’ stronger socio-economic recovery in the post-pandemic period. National RRPs should be duly reasoned […]
Reminder for the Baltic States’ recovery plans
Views: 304In September 2020, the European Commission published the Annual Sustainable Growth Strategy-2021 (ASGS-21), together with the strategic guidance for the implementation in the states of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF). The ASGS-21 is a follow-up of the previous year’s strategy with four main guiding principles: sustainability, productivity, fairness and macroeconomic stability; these dimensions will […]
European entrepreneurship and business: integration’s perspectives (Part III)
Views: 279The EU integration process in socio-economic perspectives is based on flourishing and competitively strong national entrepreneurship. Transforming global and European challenges into national business opportunities and supporting active and inclusive labour market for the benefit of all – these and other issues are vital for a whole “future of Europe” project and for positive […]
Political economy in European integration: new growth patterns (Part II)
Views: 310At the basis of the European integration are the unified efforts of the member states towards “common European goals”: the latter are based on common directions in the states’ political economies and growth patterns. The necessary changes in the states development are enforced by the global and European challenges, from one side, and by […]
European education policy perspectives: transformation in progress
Views: 278Present pandemic crisis imposed a severe stress test for all aspects of European integration. As soon as one of the main parts of socio-economic integration is the EU’s single market, the common approaches to preparing highly educated on general level and in specific skills labour force are being of utmost importance for the European […]
Towards European Education Area-2025: facing fundamental changes
Views: 284Education and training issues are becoming a high priority both for the EU and the states. Strange enough, national education policies are still almost fully in the hands of local authorities only “supplemented” by the EU funds. However, main global and European challenges can be affectively resolved only by certain adequate measures in the […]
Post-covid effects on modern governance and political economy
Views: 490The European and the member states efforts towards recovery and resilience are including new approaches to decision-making, governance and political-economy’s components in reforms; the latter are concentrated on three main “transitional components”: a) labour and workforce, b) business and entrepreneurship, and c) regional and national governance, which are analysied in the EII’s research project. […]