Aligning the Global Gateway around ‘resilience’ could give it a new lease on life
Since its launch in 2021, the Global Gateway strategy has been positioned as the EU’s primary partnership tool, among others, to project European influence and values abroad and/or to safeguard European contributions to industrial value chains. Three years later, the strategy needs to show some concrete outcomes if it’s to fulfil its ambitions. However, the […]
Creating sustainable labour markets through eco-social policies
Labour markets influence the way we produce and consume, thus playing an important role for both human wellbeing and the environment. Implementing labour market changes could help fulfil people’s needs within planetary boundaries. This would require an integrated understanding of social-ecological issues. However, despite the EU just transition’s aim to address the social impacts of […]
With the Harris-Trump battle in full swing, the EU must take the future of the transatlantic relationship into its own hands
After last week’s Democratic National Convention (DNC), Europeans may start studying the polling data coming out of rural Pennsylvania or Michigan to gauge their fate. While recent polling suggests President Biden’s decision to pass the torch has provided a much-needed boost to the Democrats, that doesn’t negate the real possibility of a second Trump presidency. […]
Understanding the barriers to recycling critical raw materials for the energy transition
Rising geopolitical tensions and the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic have intensified concerns about securing access to the critical raw materials (CRMs) that are needed for the energy transition. A group of 17 elements referred to as rare earth elements (REEs) are among the CRMs for which security of supply is increasingly becoming a matter […]
Strengthening Europe’s democratic identity and security in a more autocratic world
Much attention is rightly being paid to the well-documented tendencies in most of the world’s regions for autocracy to have been gaining some ground in the last two decades at the expense of democracy. Europe has not been immune from the impact of the several megatrends and profound systemic shocks that seem to have been […]
Green and enviable
In the new 2024-29 political cycle, policymakers are poised to continue their efforts to deliver the objectives of the European Green Deal and the Fit for 55 package, to achieve climate neutrality by 2050. The report presents 30 policy recommendations across seven thematic chapters, addressing various aspects of the European Green Deal. These provide a […]
Can the EU become a better partner and orchestrator in development policy?
Together, the EU27 countries make up the world’s largest international donor in the domain of development assistance. And yet, we find that they systematically punch below their weight. This is due to several factors, including (i) a fragmented institutional landscape at the EU level and imperfect multilevel governance; (ii) limited ability to engage with non-state […]
In the time we have left, how can we realistically reform the EU’s electricity market?
EU climate policy has had a profound impact on the EU‘s electricity mix. Unprecedented levels of renewable energy have altered the parameters of the electricity market, giving rise to a debate around the merit of the market’s current design. The energy price crisis following the Russian invasion of Ukraine has created, in the second half […]