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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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European Commission presents its compass to boost Europe’s competitiveness

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President Ursula von der Leyen presented the European Commission’s plan to boost Europe’s competitiveness and turn it into a place where future technologies, services, and clean products are invented, manufactures, and put on the market.

This Competitiveness Compass sets out the course the Commission will follow in the next five years. The Compass, first announced by President von der Leyen in November, transforms the recommendations laid out by Mario Draghi is his report on the future of European competitiveness, into a roadmap.

During a press conference, President von der Leyen explained that Europe has what it takes to lead the global economy of tomorrow: “I want to start by emphasising the strengths of the European Union. We have a very strong manufacturing and industrial base. We have a highly trained and well-educated workforce. We have a continental-size Single Market. We have the second-largest economy. We have a stable and predictable legal environment. And we have a longer life expectancy and lower inequalities than all our global competitors,” the President said. Continue reading “European Commission presents its compass to boost Europe’s competitiveness”