Views: 158After a year of extensive discussions withing the EU institutions and in the member states’ governance’s systems concerning the famous M. Draghi’s report suggestions, the Commission decided to make a “running account” of the EU-wide basic visions for facilitating the competition process. It is quite notable that the Commission’s approach to vital competitiveness issues […]
Massive investment in the European energy infrastructures
Views: 158The EU member states are unanimously joining the Commission proposal to invest about a billion euros to modernise key EU-wide energy infrastructures under the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), including provision of financial aid for works and studies for first energy-modernising projects.
New EU strategy to facilitate research and innovation infrastructures
Views: 177The EU institutions started Union-wide consultation process contributed to the preparation of the new European R&I strategy, including a public call for evidence and several dedicated conferences and events. The strategy intends to support and coordinate numerous running and expected EU initiatives to strengthen research, innovation and competitiveness, including startups and AI in science, […]
Digital technologies and AI models: profitable means for corporate entities
Views: 169Recent digital and, specifically, AI technologies and models both changed the ways people interact with the world and facilitated AI-corporate boom that created AI’s billionaires, mostly from the US and China. Quite notable: the “AI-boom” has been the quickest and largest “wealth creation venture” in modern history: the world-wide AI-connected firms and companies are […]
Future of work: recent accounts on jobs and employment
Views: 155Three main “ingredients” in a national growth pattern are regarded, generally, as quite vital: existing natural resources (e.g. including those in sub-soils), state’s geographic position and available workforce (i.e. quality educated population) to actively participate in socio-economic development. It is not only that the WEF’s recent report on workforce and talent strategies – amid […]
SOTEU-25: major upcoming initiatives and MFF
Views: 166In the State of the Union speech on 10 September 2025, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen shared key priorities and flagship projects for the year to come, building on the progress the EU has made in recent years. However, “progress” must be supported by finalizing the ongoing discussion of the Multiannual Financial […]
The State of the Union-2025: critics voiced some controversies
Views: 574The Commission will present this Wednesday its regular “state-of-the-Union address”; the European Environmental Bureau (EEB)and other opponents have already taken a closer look at the Union’s internal and external issues in the Commission President’s State of the Union (so called SOTEU) address to the Parliament. E.g. the EEB’s opinion is that “the state is […]
Supercomputing network in the EU: facilitating digital transition
Views: 190After a decade of intensive innovation efforts, the EU institutions and the member states have collaboratively developed the system of new standards in computational performance and have established fundamental changes in the digital aspects concerning scientific research and innovation processes. The JUPITER, European first so-called “exascale supercomputer” was inaugurated recently; the event has marked […]
Quality education and SDG-4: global trends in research
Views: 340Quality education is among the sustainable development goals (SDG-17) adopted by the global community already about a decade ago. The “educational SDG-4” has set some vital parameters for national and global governance to assist political economies’ patterns towards progressive growth. The SDG-4 for long is being an integral part of the EU’s member states’ […]
Cross-Atlantic digital controversies
Views: 217The European intention is to defend the continental digital market and install Union’s own digital-technology regulations. This goal has been, actually, constantly threatened by the US government by imposing global tariffs on countries/regions -including the EU- with the digital policies that the US considers “discriminatory.” The EU laws that safeguard digital transition are at […]