16-05-2024
15-05-2024
Europe’s youth now live in a new and challenging work culture, navigating employment scenarios that didn’t exist 20 years ago. Education-to-work network StartNet hosted a conference exploring a roadmap for youth employment and new European skills partnerships.
Former Italian PM Enrico Letta's new report on the future of the single market calls for an urgent upscaling of Europe’s competitiveness. Opening a Euractiv debate, Letta emphasised the need for speed, security, and solidarity.
In her first term as Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen was largely free to push through her agenda without having to worry about backlash from her party. If she gets a second mandate, however, this is bound to change, with her conservative CDU party taking a much more prominent role.
Including local and sustainability criteria in public procurement of food would be compatible with WTO rules and would also bring significant climate and economic benefits, according to a report published on Wednesday (15 May) by consultancy Carbone4.
Speaking in Brussels on Tuesday (14 May), Mehmet Şimşek added that the EU and Turkey share “equal blame” for the deterioration in their relationship in recent years.
Youth unemployment stings and weakens communities, said László Andor, Former EU Commissioner for Employment. Andor called for new EU-level regulation to deal with the impact of the digital revolution on work.
French delegate minister of Industry Roland Lescure visited the production site of Italian pharmaceutical group Chiesi in the Loir-et-Cher département on Tuesday (May 14), after the company announced an investment of €10 million.
While the high-road approach of the CRMA factors in the social and environmental conditions in which raw materials are extracted and processed, for this strategy to be viable, the EU must follow through and secure meaningful trade agreements with partner-countries that embed these considerations
Regional revitalization – driven by green policies and technological advancements – is a key priority across Europe, and it is clear that this transformation is most urgent in rural, post- industrial, and suburban areas adjacent to major cities
“We should move forward as a union, and we are all committed to do so,” Gentiloni said. “But I expect that if strong progress will not be possible, some member states will move in a different way of cooperation.”
Europe should deregulate its economy and “develop a culture of private investment” similar to the US, the vice chair of the European Parliament's Committee of Economic and Monetary Affairs told Euractiv in an interview.
“[NextGenEU] for me, is the piece in the jigsaw that allows us to reconcile the need to normalise budget policy but give a higher priority to capital investment that we’ve done in the past,” Paschal Donohoe told Euractiv in an interview.
The EU’s new carbon pricing scheme for road and heating fuels (ETS2) – set to be introduced across the bloc in 2027 – could lead to higher price hikes than initially thought, key lawmakers told Euractiv.
The Olympic flame arrived in Marseille on Wednesday in front of 200,000 spectators, just weeks before the opening of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. What economic impact will the competition have on France?
While all eyes were on Xi Jinping’s visit to Europe, leaders in Berlin debated on how the global transition towards climate neutrality affects the economy – and vice versa.
Research and innovation policy in Europe and elsewhere has for decades been increasingly designed with the singular purpose of enhancing the bettering valorisation of research investment, and the route to this goal has generally been assumed to be through industrial development
German EU lawmaker Peter Liese is already eyeing the next revamp of the EU’s emissions trading scheme, wants a CO2 Central Bank and is campaigning for his party to stay the course on EU climate targets, he told Euractiv in an interview.
The EU's current programme, Horizon Europe – one of the strongest and largest research and Innovation frameworks in the world – will end in 2027. The ground is now being set for its successor, one that needs to match the caliber of Europe’s knowledge base with the creativity and precision needed to drive the bloc's competitiveness for the next decade.
Over 2.5 million young people, aged between 15 and 24, are unemployed in the European Union. The EU youth unemployment rate is more than double the overall unemployment rate. So, how can Europe get its youth into work?
The EU’s multi-billion lending arm announced on Wednesday (8 May) changes to its long-standing policy not to invest in military products, by waiving restrictions on dual-use investments.
EU ambassadors struck a political deal on Wednesday (8 May) on using windfall profits from Russian frozen assets to buy weapons for Ukraine.
Private equity and venture capital are drivers of economic growth and job creation in Europe, contributing to sectors vital for the continent's sustainable development, writes Eric de Montgolfier.
On the last leg of his European tour in Hungary, Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday (8 May) is expected to tighten ties with Budapest, its closest ally in the European Union. After Paris, Xi's visits to
A group of banking and financial sector firms urged the next European Commission and Parliament legislators to introduce measures to boost supply and demand for market assets, helping the bloc's economy compete with the US.
