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EYD roundtable 4: "Innovation"

Lavinia Chiacchierini and Federico Scampoli

31 ott 2020
5 min

EYD roundtable 4: "Innovation"

1. The Topic The European Union has already recognized the central role of innovation in keeping its competitive position against its main rivals. In facts, after the success of Horizon 2020, the Commission is proposing Horizon Europe, a program that will allocate almost 100 billion euros in research investment over the years 2021-2027, and will include the creation of an ad hoc entity, the European Innovation Council (EIC), in order to address matters related to innovation.

EU Geopolitics 101

Iacopo Andreone

24 ott 2020
5 min

EU Geopolitics 101

Geopolitics of the EU n.1 In her first press conference as President of the European Commission, Ursula Von Der Leyen stated that she will lead a “geopolitical Commission”. But what does geopolitics actually mean for an entity like the EU? Geopolitics is a complex matter, most people confuse it with the much simpler concepts of foreign policy and international relations, but these constitute only a microscopic part of it. Behind geopolitics lie all of the elements at the basi

EYD roundtable 3: "European Way of Living"

Teresa Cappelli and Giuseppe Concetti

7 ott 2020
3 min

EYD roundtable 3: "European Way of Living"

Introduction The debate in the roundtable firstly focused on establishing a common definition for what is otherwise called “European Identity”. The participants then tackled matters such as whether the EU should take active measures to prompt the European Identity to some of its Member States and how to, as well as discussing the ties between the European Identity and the foreign policy of the Union. Common definition of European Identity Participants agreed that: "the concep

EYD roundtable 2: "the European Green Deal"

Orsola Zocchi and Andrea Casetta

4 ott 2020
10 min

EYD roundtable 2: "the European Green Deal"

1. The Topic and the Approach Over the last years, it has become increasingly obvious that the phenomena of ecosystemic degradation, upscaled pollution, natural resource depletion, deterioration of the ozone layer and global warming are all concurring to a wave of climate change that is all-encompassing and operates on a global scale, putting the survival of the entire human species at stake. Consequently, the topics of environmental issues and climate change have seen a surg

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