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Commission launches major package to fully integrate EU financial markets

The European Commission adopted a comprehensive package of measures designed to remove barriers and unlock the full potential of the EU single market for financial services. This package is a central component of the Savings and Investments Union (SIU) strategy, aiming to create a more integrated, efficient, and competitive financial system providing EU citizens better options for growing their wealth and supporting businesses in accessing funding.

More integrated capital markets are essential for fortifying the EU’s economic strength and achieving strategic priorities such as competitiveness, digital and green transitions, defence and security. Deeper integration of financial markets is not an end, but a means to create a single market for financial services greater than the sum of its national parts. Simplified access to capital markets reduces costs and makes the markets more appealing for investors and companies across all Member States, irrespective of size. Continue reading “Commission launches major package to fully integrate EU financial markets”

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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”