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Fluffy on the Facts and the Future – A Reflection on Competitiveness, Competition and Sustainability in the Letta and Draghi Reports and the EU’s responses – Go Health Pro

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Fluffy on the Facts and the Future – A Reflection on Competitiveness, Competition and Sustainability in the Letta and Draghi Reports and the EU’s responses – Go Health Pro

Introduction The last year has seen the publication of the Letta and Draghi Reports and a flurry of EU Deals all concerning the EU’s competitiveness. The recurring theme is the imminent demise of Europe. This pessimism is fed by industrial decline, the election of Donald Trump and the impact of that on the liberal world … Read more

The Janus-faced geopolitics of the EU’s eastern enlargement – Go Health Pro

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The Janus-faced geopolitics of the EU’s eastern enlargement – Go Health Pro

Teona Giuashvili asks whether the EU’s enlargement process could be derailed by the same geopolitical forces that revived it in 2022 and calls for strong security commitments to Ukraine and other candidate countries. Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 induced a major discontinuity in the EU’s foreign and security policy. It put an … Read more

Regulate fast, figure out the details later – the EU’s approach to AI – Go Health Pro

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The Janus-faced geopolitics of the EU’s eastern enlargement – Go Health Pro

The EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act came into force in August last year. Yet as Gloria González Fuster explains, there remain more questions than answers about how the EU’s approach to AI will function in practice. If there was a race to regulate Artificial Intelligence (AI), then the European Union won it. Maybe there was no … Read more

The EU-Mercosur Free Trade Agreement – A “race to the bottom” when it comes to EU’s climate goals? – Official Blog of UNIO – Go Health Pro

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The EU-Mercosur Free Trade Agreement – A “race to the bottom” when it comes to EU’s climate goals? – Official Blog of UNIO – Go Health Pro

Ana Cardoso (PhD candidate at the School of Law of University of Minho) I. The European Union (EU) is one of the most active actors in the field of environmental protection worldwide.[1] However, today some of the EU’s most important partners – namely the United States of America (USA) – have adopted highly protectionist positions[2] … Read more

The EU’s double standards on Palestine and Ukraine – Go Health Pro

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The Janus-faced geopolitics of the EU’s eastern enlargement – Go Health Pro

Alvaro Oleart and Juan Roch argue the EU’s “othering” of Palestine demonstrates clear double standards when compared to Europe’s treatment of Ukraine. Ursula von der Leyen promised a “geopolitical” European Commission in 2019. She did not disappoint. Beyond the impact of COVID-19, von der Leyen’s time in office has been marked by two acute crises: … Read more

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