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Guest blog post by Helge Sigurd Næss-Schmidt, Partner and Director of Economics at Copenhagen Economics European finance ministers are expected to discuss digital taxation when they meet later this week. Discussions will focus on the Digital Services Tax (DST), proposed by the European Commission in March, which introduced a new 3 percent tax on revenues… » read more
Posted by The Guest Blog
September 3, 2018
March, 2018 the European Commission proposed requiring better disclosure of credit-card foreign-exchange fees and that charges on intra-EU cross-border euro and domestic non-euro payments be the same. To improve payments markets and further economic integration, the EU has intervened repeatedly. Interventions may be justified and useful where there’s a market structural problem or imperfection harming… » read more
Posted by The Atlanticist
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blogactiv, Competition, Economy & Euro, EU Priorities and Opinion, Euro & Finance, Financial Services, Innovation and Growth |
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
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blogactiv, development, digital, EU Priorities 2020, EU Priorities and Opinion, Global Europe, Innovation and Growth |
Guest blog post by Edward Danks, Programme Coordinator, European Institute for Asian studies As new, digital platforms have precipitated journalistic innovation, the simultaneous rise of fake news and the spread of disinformation throughout the media has left the industry in a state of flux. The implications of this issue however, spread far beyond the undermining… » read more
Posted by The Guest Blog
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blogactiv, InfoSociety, Innovation & Enterprise, Innovation and Growth, média |
Guest post by Raffaele Jacovelli, Partner at Hightech Partners I recently participated in a half-day of debates at the European Parliament in Brussels. It was part of the #DigitalEU initiative – Eurocrats, ministers, and private sector leaders gathered together to discuss the technology that will revolutionize the European economy. There was plenty of talk about… » read more
Posted by The Guest Blog
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blogactiv, digital, Education, Innovation and Growth, Social Europe & Jobs |
April 16, 2018
Guest blog post by Stefano Quintarelli, Member of Parliament, Italy. Two weeks after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, it’s time to draw some conclusions and try to advance the debate with some structural proposals. Facts are clear: large-scale usage of a massive amount of user’s profiles collected from unaware and non-participating users, utilized to systematically… » read more
Posted by The Guest Blog
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Better regulation, blogactiv, digital, EU Citizens & Media, EurActiv.com, Future EU, InfoSociety, Innovation & Enterprise, Innovation and Growth |
Guest post by Johan Merlevede. Merlevede is the director of Leuven MindGate, an association that represents the knowledge, high-tech, and healthcare sectors in Leuven, Belgium. Shout the phrase ‘innovation hub’ into a crowd of European techies or start-up fanatics and they’ll probably assume you’re talking about one of the grand capitals known for their… » read more
Posted by The Guest Blog
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Better regulation, blogactiv, digital, EurActiv.com, Innovation & Enterprise, Innovation and Growth |
Venture capital funds relatively risky businesses with significant upside. It’s expensive capital. When successful however it has an outsized economic impact. Think PayPal, Square, Google, Facebook Amazon, and Uber. EC bureaucrats worry the EU has insufficient venture capital and is therefore disadvantaged relative to the US in creating big, transformational businesses. When Brussels perceives a… » read more
Posted by The Atlanticist
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blogactiv, Competition, Financial Services, Innovation and Growth |
November 22, 2017
Guest post by Gabriel A. Giménez Roche, assistant professor of economics at NEOMA Business School, and associate researcher at the Institut Économique Molinari At a time when the nuclear menace of North Korea becomes increasingly serious, South Korea is also threatened from within by a series of high impact financial scandals. To face it,… » read more
Posted by The Guest Blog
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blogactiv, Competition, Innovation & Enterprise, Innovation and Growth, Trade & Society |
October 6, 2017
Guest post by Roberto Defez, molecular microbiologist at the Institute of Bioscience and BioResources, Italian National Research Council. Agriculture is at a turning point. Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis (Health) and Phil Hogan (Agriculture) are sitting on two running horses approaching a crossroad. There is no middle road. They have to decide whether to keep research on… » read more
Posted by The Guest Blog
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Agriculture & Food, BioTech, blogactiv, Development Policy, Food & Consumers, Innovation and Growth |
September 20, 2017
Guest post by Michal Kurtyka, PHD Electromobility is one of the several strategic directions for Poland’s economic development in the near term. On March 16, 2017, the Polish government adopted the Electromobility Development Plan, which set goals and directions for action in this area until 2025. The energy composition of transport fuels, shaped through history,… » read more
Posted by The Guest Blog
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blogactiv, Business & Climate Change, Competition, Development Policy, Innovation & Enterprise, Innovation and Growth, Polish, Science & Research, Transport |
April 18, 2017
A central feature of any high performing healthcare system or organisation includes best practice in medicines use and management. As all aspects of healthcare are under varying degrees of financial stress these days, cost controls and appropriate use of medicines must support the highest standards of clinical practice and safe patient care. Medicines optimisation is… » read more
Posted by Euro-Sante :: Euro-Health
February 6, 2017
What a week we have had! The UK’s House of Commons voted for Brexit and newly elected President Trump announced a visa ban that isn’t a visa ban on people from seven Muslim countries. My gut reaction to the combination of these events is that Germany will be a huge beneficiary of it all. Firstly,… » read more
Posted by FinancialGuy Writes!
December 20, 2016
After more than eighteen months reading (almost) constantly about crypto currencies, I think that the entire space can be reduced to the four best opportunities for investors. There are currently more than 600 crypto currencies, so I have not investigated them all, but from everything I have seen, there are a few to be interested… » read more
Posted by FinancialGuy Writes!
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blogactiv, Euro & Finance, Financial Services, Innovation and Growth |
June 29, 2016
While folks have been quick to jump on the results of the referendum as evidence of democracy at work, (and perhaps that is partly true), a few days later we see the consequences. Economic challenges anew, social discontent in the UK (racism and xenophobia legitimated by the exit vote) and political meltdown in the UK’s… » read more
Posted by Euro-Sante :: Euro-Health
