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To add to the potential confusion, there is also a body called the Council of Europe, but that is not an arm of the EU. Common goals There is a long tradition of cooperation between the World Economic Forum and the European Union, based on shared views and goals – something Von der Leyen referred to during her address.
The Trade and Technology Council was established to promote cooperation on between the European Union and the US. New partnerships on artificial intelligence and 6G telecommunications networks were announced at the council’s 6th meeting in Belgium. The World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on the Future of Trade and Investment helps ...
At a time when Brexit and a wave of Euroscepticism pose serious challenges to the EU, here is a look back at some of the major achievements of the past 60 years. 1. It gave 500 million people the freedom to live, study or work anywhere. Freedom of movement is one of the major principles of the EU’s common market - and one of the more ...
If the act is approved by the European Parliament and the European Council, EU countries will have two years to adapt the new rules. “Digital trust is a necessity in a global economy reliant on ever-increasing connectivity, data use and new innovative technologies,” said Akshay Joshi, the head of industry and partnerships at the Forum’s ...
EU, US and UK representatives have signed a landmark AI safety treaty Image: Council of Europe Many nations are working on legislation to mitigate the risks of AI technology. In the World Economic Forum's Global Risks Report, 'adverse outcomes of AI technologies' was identified as a top ten risk over the next decade, as was misinformation and ...
Right-wing parties gained ground in the 2024 European Parliament elections, though less than predicted. Despite the significant wins and losses, no single bloc emerged with an overall majority in the European Parliament. Centrist parties are working to form a coalition to support a second term for Ursula von der Leyen.
Germany should put its full weight behind “pooling and sharing” military resources, even if the United Kingdom is resistant to such an effort. After all, the time when EU member states went to war alone ended more than three decades ago, with the Falklands War. “Poor old Germany,” Henry Kissinger once quipped. “Too big for Europe, too ...
Carl Bildt is Co-Chair of the European Council on Foreign Relations, contributing columnist to Washington Post as well as columnist for Project Syndicate. He serves as Senior Advisor to the Wallenberg Foundations in Sweden and is on the Board of Trustees of the RAND Corporation in the US. He has served as both Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Sweden. March 2021, Mr Carl Bildt was ...
Nearly two years after the European Commission launched the European Green Deal in December 2019, the EU’s landscape has changed greatly, with the COVID-19 pandemic causing a contraction of the bloc’s GDP by 6.1% in 2020. Yet as countries continue their vaccination campaigns and focus on economic recovery, there’s hope that the region can ...
Croatia has become the 27th country to join Europe’s Schengen Area - a zone with no internal border controls, including passport checks. It spans more than 4 million square kilometres and is home to about 420 million people. The Schengen Area is the ‘bedrock’ of the European Union and was created in 1985. Croatia has joined the Schengen ...