Category: 2021

2021 External relations

Understanding EU financing for external action

With the new 2021-2027 EU Multiannual Financial Framework of €1100 bn and this long Pandemic experience, how EU external relations will change? Let’s take a look inside the EU financing. In the face of the changing nature of the geopolitical environment in the past decade and its own internal challenges, the EU has reflected upon […]

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2021 NextGenerationEU

Harmonise EU research and regional policies

In this article is described how European Union promotes innovation with the aim of triggering an economic dynamism that will increase the competitiveness of the EU as a … Harmonise EU research and regional policies

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2021

EU and its New Mediterranean Strategy

  For the third time, after 1995 and 2008, Europe tries to relaunch the Mediterranean Partnership. EU has now two major challenges: the pandemic and the green transition. The first requires a coordinated approach between Europe and its neighbours. The second needs wide partnerships that can accompany strategies and investments. Why not Mediterranean, knowing that […]

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2021

European Parliament votes on the Recovery Fund: what about sovranist parties?

  During the February Plenary Session, the European Parliament will debate five topics regarding COVID-19. One concerns the EU’s mega aid plan for countries in difficulty: the Recovery and Resilience Fund of € 750 billion. What will be the vote of the sovereign parties of the right and the extreme left? The question is legitimate […]

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2021 International trade Trade

What’s in the EU-UK Trade Cooperation Agreement after BREXIT?

Who wins, who loses? Since 1st January the Agreement has been applied provisionally, pending the vote of the European Parliament. The EU Commission proposed to apply the Agreement on a provisional basis only for a limited period of time, until 28 February 2021.    After a process that started in 2016, the UK has left the EU. […]

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2021 Budget

Recovery fund “is too slow and complicated”, are saying EU Govs

It is true that the EU Commission is successfully conducting the issuances of European bonds within EU Sure Programme, but the governments are calling for the acceleration of raising capital for the Recovery Plan. French finance minister Bruno Le Maire launches a criticism that is shared by the majority of governments: “the funds must arrive […]

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