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This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Roberto Bocca, Head of the Centre for Energy and Materials, Member of the Executive Committee, World Economic Forum 1. Equity suffers as countries pivot to energy security – report Major emerging economies with high future energy demand have […]
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Kate Whiting, Senior Writer, Forum Agenda This weekly round-up contains the key nature and climate news from the past week.Top nature and climate stories: Smoke from Canada’s worst wildfire season impacts air quality for 100 million Americans; China […]
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Spencer Feingold, Digital Editor, World Economic Forum Rising interest and depreciating exchange rates are driving capital back to developed nations—and closing doors to credit for developing countries. The situation, experts say, is forcing developing countries to borrow at […]
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Anna Schneider, Professor of Business Psychology, Trier University of Applied Sciences As communication moves from the physical to the digital realm and then on to mixed reality, the information that we share through body language, tone and cadence […]
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Desirée Pacheco, Professor of Entrepreneurship, IESE Business School, University of Navarra Social movements could help support finding innovative solutions to issues such as climate change by encouraging entrepreneurial activity.Research shows that social movements can also play a key […]
Parliament’s Environment Committee today adopted its position to improve air quality in the EU to create a cleaner and healthier environment. The report, adopted with 46 votes in favour, 41 against and 1 abstention, sets stricter 2030 limit and target values for several pollutants including particulate matter (PM2.5, PM10), NO2 (nitrogen dioxide), SO2 (sulphur dioxide) […]
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Simon Torkington, Senior Writer, Forum Agenda Τhis article was first published on 9 March 2022. It has been updated on 22 June 2023. When times are hard we could all use a little help. For 30 people in […]
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. 1. On 21 June 2023, the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the European Union hosted the EU-US Ministerial Meeting on Justice and Home Affairs in Stockholm. The European Union was represented by the Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson, the Commissioner for Justice, […]
What is striking is that the US and EU don’t seem aligned at this point in time. Blinken’s recent visit in Beijing went super well creating fertile ground for catching up US-China relations and making them stronger, with both sides leaving ample space for betterment and restoration of the fragile ties of the world’s biggest […]
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. In light of the devastating consequences of Russia’s war of aggression for Ukraine’s people, economy, and infrastructure, and given the enormous scale and complexity of the recovery and reconstruction challenge, the European Commission is proposing to establish a dedicated financing instrument that will provide […]
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. The impact of accelerating refugee employment. By June 2023, the war in Ukraine had forced over 6 million people to flee their homeland and cross borders in search of safety. This war is the latest in an ever-increasing number […]
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum./ Author: Aliaksei Patonia, Research Fellow in Commercial Hydrogen Development, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, Kristina Fürst, Expert in Carbon Management, German Energy Agency Renewable energy sources are seen key way of combatting climate change, with many nations increasing the share […]
This article was exclusively written for The European Sting by Ms. Maryam Junaid, a first-year medical student enrolled in the University of Lahore. She is affiliated to the International Federation of Medical Students Associations (IFMSA), cordial partner of The Sting. The opinions expressed in this piece belong strictly to the writers and do not necessarily reflect IFMSA’s […]
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. Today, the European Commission has adopted its negotiating directives for a Critical Minerals Agreement (CMA) with the United States. The objective is to foster EU-US supply chains in critical raw materials needed in the production of electric vehicle batteries. In 2022 alone, the EU […]
This article was exclusively written for The European Sting by Ms. Laltu Negasa, a dynamic and enthusiastic fifth year medical student at Addis Ababa University, College of Sciences in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She is affiliated to the International Federation of Medical Students Associations (IFMSA), cordial partner of The Sting. The opinions expressed in this piece belong strictly […]
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum./ Author: Mirek Dušek, Managing Director, World Economic Forum 2,500 kilometres – a drive from Astana to Almaty and back (or from Madrid to Copenhagen) – is the average distance that can be saved by using the Middle Corridor to transport […]
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. The European Commission welcomes the successful political agreement reached by the Member States at the Home Affairs Council on 8 June on the New Pact on Migration and Asylum, which it had presented in September 2020. This is a real breakthrough after years of […]
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. Russia’s attacks against Ukrainian civilian critical infrastructure reached an unprecedented level today with the destruction of the dam at Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant. The European Union condemns this attack in the strongest possible terms. It represents a new dimension of Russian atrocities and may […]
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum./ Author: Mel Hua, Hoffmann Fellow, Circular Economy & 4IR, World Economic Forum, Mo Chatterji, Circular Economy Specialist, Kearney The fast fashion model is simple. Figure out what consumers want, produce a lot of it and repeat. While this model has […]
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. The Commission is presenting today an EU Action Plan on the Western Mediterranean and Atlantic migration routes. In her letter to the European Council of 20 March 2023, President von der Leyen reiterated the Commission’s ongoing work with the Member States most concerned on […]
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum./ Author: Joe Myers, Writer, Forum Agenda 1. US passes bill to suspend debt ceiling The United States House of Representatives and the US Senate have passed a bill to suspend the country’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling. There was support for […]
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. In 2020, the Commission´s nearly €100 billion SURE instrument designed to protect jobs and incomes affected by the COVID-19 pandemic supported about 31.5 million employees and self-employed people and over 2.5 million businesses. SURE effectively encouraged Member States to set up wide-ranging and ambitious […]
This article is brought to you in association with the European Parliament. On Wednesday afternoon, Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili addressed the European Parliament in Brussels. The first Georgian head of state to give a speech in the hemicycle for 13 years, President Zourabichvili called for her country’s ‘reunification with its European family’ and for Georgia to […]
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission’s Horizon, the EU Research and Innovation Magazine. Everyone, it seems, is more than ready to move on from Covid-19, but virus experts say it’s still too early for us to lower our guard. That’s because the pandemic, they insist, is far from over. Indeed, […]
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. Following up on President von der Leyen’s State of the Union speech in September last year, Commissioner for Crisis Management Janez Lenarčič announced today the doubling of the rescEU aerial firefighting fleet for this year’s wildfire season while speaking at the 10th anniversary of […]
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum./ Author: Kotryna Urbanaite, Decentralised Identity Strategy Manager , Accenture Several countries are beginning to accept digital travel credentials in place of physical passports, as predicted by Accenture’s Tech Vision 2023. Indeed, global events, including the COVID-19 pandemic, irregular migration […]
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum./ Author: Morgan Bazilian, Director, Professor of Public Policy, Payne Institute for Public Policy, Simon Moores, CEO, Benchmark Mineral Intelligence Critical minerals – the once forgotten elements crucial to modern day technology – have made it to the top of the […]
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum./ Author: Cathy Li, Head, AI, Data and Metaverse; Member of the Executive Committee, World Economic Forum Geneva 1. EU, US aim to bridge the AI regulatory gap As the European Union pushes ahead with its AI Act, it is set […]
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum./ Author: Shyam Bishen, Head, Centre for Health and Healthcare, Member of Executive Committee, World Economic Forum 1. WHO declares Mpox outbreak is no longer a public health emergency of international concern The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared that the […]
This article is brought to you in association with the European Parliament. On Wednesday, the Environment Committee adopted its position on EU rules to further reduce pollution and steer large agro-industrial installations in the green transition. The industrial emission directive (IED) lays down rules on the prevention and control of pollution from large agro-industrial installations emissions […]
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum./ Author: Ian Shine, Senior Writer, Forum Agenda Imagine a cool, refreshing glass of beer: malt, hops, yeast and the key ingredient … wastewater from a 39-story luxury high-rise apartment building. This unique beer-making approach was the brainchild of a San […]
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. The European Commission has approved an approximately €1 billion (PLN 4.7 billion) Polish scheme to support the liquidity of agricultural producers in the context of Russia’s war against Ukraine. The scheme was approved under the State aid Temporary Crisis and Transition Framework, adopted by […]
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum./ Author: Roberto Bocca, Head of Energy and Materials, Member of the Executive Committee , World Economic Forum Geneva 1. EU renewable energy deal delayed on role of nuclear in transition European Union countries were set to finalize a new target […]
