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What are the realities of the Biodiversity and Farm to Fork strategies?

According to Frans Timmermans, Executive Vice-President of the European Commission: “At the heart of the Green Deal the Biodiversity and Farm to Fork strategies point to a new and better balance of nature, food systems and biodiversity; to protect our...

Cloud computing needs kick-start in Europe: Study

Less than a quarter of European computer users say they use cloud services, even though cloud computing is amongst the fastest-growing segments in the global technology market, a new survey shows.

Policy chief: Self-regulation by alcohol industry must be properly implemented

The chief of strategy at the European Commission's health and consumer protection directorate (DG Sanco) tells EURACTIV that the forthcoming overhaul of its alcohol strategy will probably not come before the end of the year, but it will be on the agenda of the Cypriot presidency.

Commission asked to launch Danube Strategy

Romanian MEPs have built a "coalition" among colleagues from other countries of the Danube basin, pushing for the adoption by the European Commission of a "Danube Strategy" similar to the EU's Baltic Sea Strategy, which was adopted last year.

The limits of enlargement-lite: European and Russian power

"The EU's security, prosperity and its relationship with Russia are bound up with the well-being of the states in [its] Eastern neighbourhood," write Andrew Wilson and Nicu Popescu in a June paper for the European Council on Foreign Relations.

China as an international investor: in a class of its own

China is in a "class of its own" among the BRIC group of fast-growing economic powers and will "replace the United States as the world's largest economy by 2040," says Markus Jaeger of Deutsche Bank Research in an August paper. BRIC also comprises Brazil, Russia and India.

Redesigning the EU’s trade policy towards China

The EU should adopt a "global approach" towards China that includes the US, Japan, and medium-sized economies as "key partners," argue Patrick Messerlin and Jinghui Wang in an April paper for the European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE).

Strategic aspects of EU-China commercial and monetary relations

China's emergence as the world's third economic power has changed the "global chessboard" by adding a new tactical dimension of the Sino-European relationship, says an April study led by associate researcher at London's Royal Institute of International Affairs Karine Lisbonne-de Vergeron for the Robert Schuman Foundation.

Redefining EU-Africa relations

The 2007 Joint EU-Africa Strategy has opened a "new chapter" in their relations "which now needs to be written", write John Kotsopoulos and Elizabeth Sidiropoulos for the European Policy Centre (EPC), ahead of the summit between the two continents on 8-9 December.

Commission adopts new enlargement strategy

"A carefully managed enlargement process" is defined as the Commission's newly adopted strategy goal.