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Europe risks becoming only a spectator in the global race for green and digital technologies. To maintain its technological sovereignty, the EU must build on its own strengths. These (still) lie primarily in materials innovation. The Centre for European Policy (cep) calls for a new strategic focus of technology policies on the development of advanced materials.

In der gemeinsamen Veranstaltungsreihe von Europäischer Bewegung Deutschland e.V. (EBD) und Table.Briefings im Vorfeld der Europawahl 2024 wollen wir mit den Spitzenvertretern und Spitzenvertreterinnen vieler Parteien gemeinsam mit Expertinnen und Experten in den Dialog treten. 

Progress in AI’s capabilities has highlighted a significant concern: the uneven allocation of AI’s benefits among and within societies and economies, worsening both domestic and global inequalities. In addition to limiting market competition and innovation, this concentration of power also translates into social challenges: global inequalities, risks of bias and disinformation, replacement of jobs, and lack of democratic control.

In Europe, there is growing pressure from politics and business to create a smoothly functioning Capital Markets Union (CMU). While retail investors in the US invested almost half of their financial assets in securities two years ago, the proportion in the EU was only 17 per cent. The Centre for European Policy (cep) believes that the EU should increase its efforts to increase this proportion.

On April 25, President Emmanuel Macron delivered his second Sorbonne speech, following on from the one he gave on September 26, 2017. Longer, richer in concrete proposals, and deploying maximum ambition for the European Union, commentators hesitate to qualify his target: is it his party's potential voters for the upcoming European elections, the European Parliament, or is it above all his European partners? We would argue here that, while the speech obviously has electoral repercussions, particularly given its high content of proposals, it is above all a speech designed to challenge the Member States, as was already the case in 2017.

The EU is in rough waters between the USA, China and the global South. Added to this is the war in Ukraine. In an eight-part series, cep looks at the challenges for the period after the European elections.

Inadequate resources, dominant tech companies and a lack of legitimacy: rapid progress in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) requires a drastic rethink in Brussels. This is the conclusion of a study by the Centre for European Policy (cep) in the run-up to the European elections. An institutional reorganisation of the Commission is needed.

Whether the USA, China or the global South: the European Union is coming under increasing geopolitical and economic pressure. In order to withstand this and make the single market resilient, the Centre for European Policy (cep) is calling for a geo-economic protective shield.

The Italian government is seeking to advance a constitutional reform that would allow the Prime Minister to be directly elected the by the citizens. The idea is that this would ensure greater stability to the govern-ment, also respecting the principle of democratic representation.