Views: 47Major global powers are constantly exploring space both in communication and in facilitating the digital transition: the priorities varied among the states, but the trend is obvious. For example, the EU has introduced the sovereignty’s concept in its cloud procurement, with the aim of advancing the digital transition, while setting a benchmark for secure, […]
Strengthening the EU-wide digital intelligence tools
Views: 56The EU’s foreign policy service is seeking to expand its intelligence analysis to “cement its position” as the European “conduit for classified information”. The initiative followed Commission’s attempt in 2025 to set its own intelligence collection operation; the member states were against it. As part of the EU’s general security strategy, the European External […]
World-wide digital services’ providers and public governance: some examples
Views: 52There is presently huge cloud management platforms, e.g. the “governance’s digital technology’s structures” (the so-called GovTech systems), which include numerous already popular software companies. Among main digital-type politico-economic functions are: policing analytics, budgeting, predictive governance, urban management and welfare systems, etc. At a critical time, the national governance structures are becoming “algorithmically mediated”; hence, […]
From the digital ambition to effective implementation: European strategic summits
Views: 26The digital transition is a hot issue among the EU institutions and the member states. Several digital “summits” are taking place in the second part of this year. This article attracts the readers’ attention to some of them revealing the general directions in the EU-wide perspective digital processes. Besides, some other events of importance […]
The European “One Europe-One Market” roadmap: Commission’s assessments
Views: 50The EU Single Market (formally established in 1993), is a unified economic area where goods, services, capital and people move freely without borders or tariffs. The concept is often called the “four freedoms,” as it allows EU citizens live and work within the bloc’s 27 member states as a “single domestic” economy. The new […]
Global trends in education policies: the European effects
Views: 127The UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report (launched in March 2026) and the Higher Education Global Trends Report (launched in this May) highlighted a worsening education crisis characterized by stalled access and widening economic inequalities. The reports provide important data that can assist the EU policy makers to guide higher education systems and policies at […]
European political community: additional facet in the “European idea”
Views: 47The European Political Community, EPC is an intergovernmental forum aimed to facilitate political dialogue about the future of Europe; it was created four years ago as a “renewed effort” to redefine and expand the “European idea” beyond the existing frameworks, by fostering cooperation among European nations and states. Proposed by the French President, the […]
In need of financial resources: European Union’s borrowing on global markets
Views: 45The European Commission is empowered by the EU Treaties to borrow from the international capital markets on behalf of the European Union. The EU is a well-established name in debt securities markets, with a strong track record of successful bond issuances over the past 40 years. The Commission presently intends to issue €10 billion […]
European “cloud” service: the idea of strengthening digital sovereignty
Views: 113The European Commission intends to strengthen the EU’s digital sovereignty by awarding a tender that allows EU institutions, bodies, offices and agencies to procure sovereign cloud services for up to €180 million over 6 years. The four awarded providers are from the European digital companies in Germany, France, Luxembourg and Belgium.
The ideas of “simplification” and omnibus: challenging facilities
Views: 46Over two years ago, Mario Draghi and Enrico Letta – both the former Italian Prime Ministers – composed two reports on European competitiveness issues; the reports have since been repeatedly cited and heavily criticized lately. Besides, the reports outcomes have been recently consolidated into the so-called omnibus packages aimed at removing main regulatory stumbling […]