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Archives for EU Priorities 2020

Scenario of mobilisation for a better Horizon Europe

January 28, 2020

Last year the European Commission proposed an EU budget for 2021 to 2027 of €100 billion for the next research and innovation framework programme Horizon Europe. This roughly represents 7.8 per cent of the overall EU budget, also known as the Multiannual Financial Framework. It compares with about €80 billion given to the Horizon 2020… » read more

  Posted by Europa Media

blogactiv, EU funding, EU Priorities 2020, EU projects, EU related news, EurActiv.com, Euro & Finance, Europa Media News, Science & Policymaking

No blind trust in ‘blending’

July 22, 2019

  To boost its development cooperation and to fill funding gaps, the European Union is increasingly resorting to “blending”. While using tax payer-funded aid to encourage the engagement of private companies and investors in development can be helpful in certain cases, new Oxfam research has confirmed that private money is not a magical tool to… » read more

  Posted by Oxfam's EU Advocacy office in Brussels

Agriculture & Food, Aid Effectiveness, blogactiv, Climate & Environment, Development Policy, EU institutions, EU Priorities 2020, food, Sustainable Dev.

7 Health actions to make a difference – Open Letter to the new Commission President-elect

June 27, 2019

Brussels, 25th June 2019 Subject: Suggesting 7 actions to your next five years plan to re-launch Europe by improving health Dear Commission President Elect, By the time of writing this, it is not known to whom that letter will be addressed but I am sure you can certainly have an interest to listen to me… » read more

  Posted by Zoltán Massay-Kosubek

blogactiv, EU Priorities 2020, European citizens, European Integration, Health & Consumers, Public Health, Sustainable Dev.

Centre-Right Federalism – A Reconciliation

May 24, 2019

Guest post by Radu Dumitrescu, one of the Editors-in-Chief of The New Federalist. The resurgence of right-wing nationalism and hatred in Europe has been aptly met with condemnation from across the political spectrum, from conservatives and liberals to social democrats and greens. And yet, the centre-right and the Manfred Webers of the world have had… » read more

  Posted by The Guest Blog

blogactiv, EU institutions, EU Priorities 2020

Democracy vs Ochlocracy

May 2, 2019

The first popular works of Sigmund Freud in America strongly influenced the journalistic intelligentsia of the 1920s. They were fascinated and frightened by the Freudian image of a man with hidden perilous forces lying almost on the surface of the society of that time. Everyone was scared by the subconscious forces that could easily flare… » read more

  Posted by Institute for Postinformation Society

blogactiv, EU Priorities 2020, EurActiv.com, Europe's East, Global Europe, InfoSociety

Global Energy Prize Summit Held in Germany Highlights the Need for a “Quantum Jump” to Hit Paris Commitments

April 15, 2019

During the Global Energy Prize Summit, which took place at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany on 10 April 2019, international experts, including Nobel prize laureates, discussed possible scientific and technological solutions to avoid dangerous climate change in line with the commitments under Paris Agreement. The event was organised by the Global Energy Association,… » read more

  Posted by Dialogue for Europe

blogactiv, Climate & Environment, Development Policy, Energy, EU Priorities 2020, EurActiv.com, Global Europe, Innovation & Enterprise, Science & Policymaking, Sustainable Dev.

Does the Eastern Partnership Promote Common Security for Eastern Europe? Views from Ukraine

October 30, 2018

At the Eastern Partnership (EaP) Ministerial Meeting, held in Luxemburg on October 15, 2018, ministers of the EU member states and six partner states evaluated the progress made under the 20 Deliverables for 2020, provided by the working document “Eastern Partnership: Focusing on Key Priorities and Deliverables”. According to the document, cooperation between the European… » read more

  Posted by Ukrainian Think Tanks Liaison Office in Brussels

blogactiv, Enlargement, EU Priorities 2020, EurActiv.com, Europe's East, Global Europe

Veto al bilancio e regole europee

September 3, 2018

Il bilancio europeo ha attratto l’attenzione dei media a seguito di dichiarazioni di importanti esponenti del governo italiano che, in diverse forme hanno indicato la volontà di mettere il veto sul bilancio europeo. Mi sembra utile chiarire cosa questo significa rispetto alle regole europee. La definizione ‘bilancio europeo’ viene usata genericamente per indicare sia il… » read more

  Posted by Alfredo De Feo European pratictioner and researcher

blogactiv, EU Budget, EU Priorities 2020

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1a Convenzione Cittadina di AllE in Italia – Bordighera – 17/8/18

August 23, 2018

Il 17 agosto 2018 si sono riuniti circa 20 cittadini per parlare d’Europa in una Convenzione Cittadina (CoCi) organizzata da Giorgio Clarotti per Alliance Europa sul modello ispirato dalle CoCi lanciate dai Presidenti Juncker, Macron e dalla Cancelliera Merkel. La riunione mirava ‘Adulti attivi’ nel lavoro o in associazioni perché avevano poco partecipato al “pilota”… » read more

  Posted by TAXI: Europa

blogactiv, EU Priorities 2020

Space power – a timely answer to Europe’s energy problematique

July 2, 2018

Guest post by Vidvuds Beldavs, strategist for NZP FOTONIKA-LV, the national photonics platform of the University of Latvia Juncker’s European Commission (EC) has until the end of its term 31 October 2019 to take decisive action to address Europe’s energy problematique – intermingled problems that cannot be solved independently. The EU needs to maintain robust… » read more

  Posted by The Guest Blog

blogactiv, development, digital, EU Priorities 2020, EU Priorities and Opinion, Global Europe, Innovation and Growth
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