Category: 3. Europe

Over the past few days, three European countries have raised the alert level for HPAI.

From October 16, the risk level has been raised to “moderate” across mainland France. According to the agriculture ministry, the change is justified by…

Host Vanda Felbab-Brown speaks with Dr. Alex Stevens, criminology professor at the University of Sheffield, about the emerging threat of synthetic opioids in Europe, particularly fentanyl and nitazenes. Stevens argues that the greater…

How affordable is housing in Europe: key statistics

One way to measure whether housing costs are too high is to look at the housing price-to-income-ratio. If housing costs are above 40% of disposable income, it is a sign that households face…

We analyze the country-level O₃ production relative to the imported O₃ over Europe. We begin with a detailed evaluation of the simulated O₃ over Europe. The source contribution results are introduced with an overview of the mean contributions…

Summary

• Europe’s global influence as a technology regulator is not matched in its overall digital power, where it lags far behind the US and China and is highly reliant on others.
• Building a grand strategy to…

The long-awaited Draghi report could serve as a roadmap for the new European Commission by proposing radical changes to the European Union’s economic policy. The author, former prime minister of Italy and former president of the…

At a glance

• A three-lens approach–on adoption, creation, and energy–is required to assess Europe’s competitiveness in the emerging generative AI (gen AI) economy. While much of the current discourse centers around large language…

There are few more pressing questions facing European governments than how to drive economic growth and make the region more competitive. And it’s clear that one of the most important ways to boost the EU’s competitiveness is by harnessing AI…

European countries have revamped their approaches to vetting foreign investments in recent years to protect sensitive industries and critical infrastructure. But the regulatory changes have focused primarily on the threat of…