Europe vs China: how many divisions? on 04/12/23
Next week's EU-China Summit will not lead to grand changes in both superpowers' fraught relationship, and it is high time the EU starts thinking collectively on pushing back against China's bullying ways, Institut Montaigne's François Godement writes. Nobel economist: Rapid technological changes drive EU skills shortages on 02/12/23
Skills shortages across the EU can be explained by technological changes so rapid that workers and companies alike are struggling to keep up, labour economics scholar and Nobel prize winner Christopher Pissarides told Euractiv in an interview on Friday (1 December). Commission’s late payments proposal misses its target on 01/12/23
The EU's proposed rules on late payments will deprive SMEs of the flexibility they require from their business partners, argues Alena Mastantuono. Taxing the rich isn’t radical – not taxing them is on 01/12/23
Welcome to Euractiv’s weekly Economy Brief. You can subscribe to the newsletter here. The new European Citizens’ initiative, which seeks to implement a European wealth tax to support the green transition comes with a healthy dose of EU direct democracy... Trade must be taken more seriously as an environmental issue on 01/12/23
Countries’ carbon footprints are determined by what they buy and sell from each other, not just by their own production. So trade policy should play a role in countries’ efforts to decarbonise – alignment of the two is long overdue, write Laurence Tubiana and Richard Baron. EU budget deal held up by Berlin’s internal debate, bloc’s finance chief says on 30/11/23
Germany's internal fiscal discussion is currently the biggest obstacle to a deal on a mid-term revision of the EU's seven-year financing plan, the EU's Budget Commissioner Johannes Hahn said in an interview on Thursday (30 November). Securing workers’ rights in the AI revolution [Promoted content] on 30/11/23
Business leaders, policymakers, academia and industry experts discussed the impact of AI on the world of work at the European Employment & Social Rights Forum. Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the way we work, with research projecting it will deliver... OECD warns France’s deficit projections are too optimistic on 29/11/23
The French government’s deficit reduction projections are not realistic, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) found in a report published on Wednesday (29 November), stating France ought to “step up the pace of fiscal consolidation”. LEAK: EU Commission queries member states, defence industry on draft industrial strategy on 29/11/23
European Commission defence experts are asking EU countries and the arms industry how it can make the latter more flexible, cooperative and less dependent on third countries ideas on mapping production capacity, setting up a one-stop shop, and securing budgets, according to documents seen by Euractiv. South Korea’s ‘US for security, China for economy’ strategy no longer working on 28/11/23
As the EU is struggling to balance its economic and security interests amid US-China tensions, South Korea faces similar challenges in a much more accentuated way, requiring the country to take extraordinary care in devising its economic security strategy.
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