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Commission’s Digital Services Tax: once again, SMEs will pay the bill

November 29, 2018

Guest blog post by Patrick Gibbels, Secretary General of the European Small Business Alliance (ESBA) and Managing Director of Gibbels Public Affairs. The European Commission is proposing a tax on the revenues of digital services. The tax is supposed to hit global tech giants, but the cost will be borne by small businesses and consumers.… » read more

  Posted by The Guest Blog

blogactiv, Innovation & Enterprise, Innovation and Growth, taxation

Policymakers seek CEOs input for Future of EU

November 22, 2018

Guest post by Dan Luca, Senior Director at EURACTIV. The shaping of the FUTURE OF EU starts now. Brexit becomes a reality next March, paving the way for a rebalancing of power within the EU. Leaders will decide Europe’s future path at the FUTURE OF EU Summit (Sibiu, Romania) in May 2019. This summit will… » read more

  Posted by The Guest Blog

blogactiv, Innovation & Enterprise, Innovation and Growth, Social Europe & Jobs, Trade & Industry

The Blockchain Sector Needs Clarity From The EU

November 13, 2018

At the recent Malta Blockchain Summit I had the pleasure of meeting Totte Löfström (@TotteLofstrom). Totte is the CEO of the new Swedish cryptocurrency exchange Trijo. We agreed that I would interview him about his experiences. Thank you Totte! – Please tell us about your organisation, it’s founding and goals. Trijo is basically a three-legged… » read more

  Posted by FinancialGuy Writes!

blogactiv, Euro & Finance, Innovation & Enterprise, Innovation and Growth

The proposed EU digital tax risks solving no problems while creating new ones

September 6, 2018

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

blogactiv, digital, Innovation and Growth, taxation

EU should help payments markets work better

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

blogactiv, Competition, Economy & Euro, EU Priorities and Opinion, Euro & Finance, Financial Services, Innovation and Growth

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

Formulating a Response to Fake News: The Long Path Ahead

May 29, 2018

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

blogactiv, InfoSociety, Innovation & Enterprise, Innovation and Growth, média

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What we should learn from Cambridge Analytica

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

Better regulation, blogactiv, digital, EU Citizens & Media, EurActiv.com, Future EU, InfoSociety, Innovation & Enterprise, Innovation and Growth

How to make innovation thrive when you’re not London, Paris, or Berlin

March 30, 2018

  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

Better regulation, blogactiv, digital, EurActiv.com, Innovation & Enterprise, Innovation and Growth

EC funds are not the way to spur venture capital and innovation in the EU

December 22, 2017

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

blogactiv, Competition, Financial Services, Innovation and Growth

Don’t throw the Chaebol baby out with the corrupt bath water

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

blogactiv, Competition, Innovation & Enterprise, Innovation and Growth, Trade & Society

Larva: a story about the future of agriculture and GMO research

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

Agriculture & Food, BioTech, blogactiv, Development Policy, Food & Consumers, Innovation and Growth

Poland on the Road to Electromobility

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

blogactiv, Business & Climate Change, Competition, Development Policy, Innovation & Enterprise, Innovation and Growth, Polish, Science & Research, Transport

Quality of Care and Medicines Use are Linked

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

blogactiv, Innovation and Growth
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