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Strategic Foresight Report to guide Europe’s long-term choices

The European Commission’s 2025 Strategic Foresight Report presents ‘Resilience 2.0’, a forward-looking and proactive approach to ensuring the EU thrives in turbulent times, anticipates new challenges and creates a safe space for citizens and business.

The report recognises various megatrends: climate and environmental transitions are accelerating, security concerns are rising, and global competition is reshaping economies and societies. At the same time, Europe faces questions on its strategic autonomy, competitiveness, social cohesion and the protection of democracy and fundamental values.

The scale and complexity of the challenges ahead require policymakers to consider unfamiliar or even hard-to-imagine scenarios. The report makes foresight a standing feature of EU policymaking. From 2026, annual foresight reports will not just analyse trends but test how different future scenarios would affect Europe, and use those insights to shape policies across the board. Continue reading “Strategic Foresight Report to guide Europe’s long-term choices”

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Commission unveils anti-fraud revamp to protect the EU budget

the Commission has launched a structured reflection process for the review of the EU Anti-Fraud Architecture. The review complements the preparatory work on the next multiannual financial framework (MFF). Its aim is to ensure a strengthened and more efficient protection of the Union’s financial interests.

The review of the EU Anti-Fraud Architecture is of outmost importance, due to evolving threats to the EU’s financial interests, including increasing transnational fraud, organised crime targeting EU funds, or criminal networks using advanced technologies, like AI and crypto currencies, to try to defraud the EU.

The Anti-Fraud Architecture review will promote efficiency at every stage of the anti-fraud cycle, supporting complementarity between anti-fraud actors in the prevention, detection, investigation, correction of fraud, prosecution and a more efficient and effective recovery of the amounts concerned, including for the EU budget. Effective deterrence and response will be at the heart of the exercise. Continue reading “Commission unveils anti-fraud revamp to protect the EU budget”

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DNS4EU Goes live : A European Alternative to Google and Cloudflare DNS

Whalebone has officially launched the DNS4EU Public Service – a free, privacy-focused, and secure DNS resolver designed to protect citizens across the European Union. This initiative is a key milestone in the EU’s broader effort to enhance digital sovereignty and cybersecurity for all Europeans.

What Is DNS4EU Public Service?

DNS4EU Public Service is a publicly accessible DNS resolver that offers EU citizens a safer and more private internet experience. It blocks access to malicious domains, adheres strictly to GDPR, and ensures that all DNS resolution occurs within the EU digital space. The service is part of the wider DNS4EU project, which aims to protect 100 million people through a combination of public and commercial service offerings. Continue reading “DNS4EU Goes live : A European Alternative to Google and Cloudflare DNS”