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EU to DO 2015-2019: Memos to the new EU leadership.

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Wednesday, September 3, 2014
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The new EU leadership – the president of the European Commission and his team of commissioners, and the presidents of the European Council and of the European Parliament – will have to address pressing challenges. Despite the significant steps taken by Europe – among them the creation of a European Stability Mechanism, the start of a banking union, the strengthening of fiscal rules and substantial structural reforms in crisis countries – results for citizens are still unsatisfactory. It is impossible to summarise all the memos in this volume but a common theme is the need to focus on pro-growth policies, on a deepening of the single market, on better and more global trade integration. Reverting to national protectionism, more state aid for national or European champions – as frequently argued for by national politicians – will not be the right way out of the crisis. On the contrary, more Europe and deeper economic integration in some crucial areas, such as energy, capital markets and the digital economy, would greatly support the feeble recovery. But in other areas, less Europe would also be a highly welcome signal that the new European leadership is serious about subsidiarity. Internal re-organisation of the European Commission to ensure that it better delivers would also be welcome.
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The future of Big Data

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L'avenir des Big Data
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Les big-data constituent une véritable révolution. La croissance exponentielle des données détermine en effet une nouvelle façon de les employer. Celles-ci sont désormais susceptibles d’une multitude de réutilisations sans rapport avec leur collecte initiale. La révolution des big-data représente ainsi bien plus qu’un changement quantitatif : en modifiant notre façon de traiter les données, elle bouleverse notre représentation du savoir, de l’expertise, de l’homme et de catégories juridiques comme celles de vie privée ou de responsabilité.
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Wednesday, April 22, 2015
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The big-data are a revolution. The exponential data growth determines a new way to use them. These are now capable of numerous reuses unrelated to their initial collection.
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Digital Futures: A journey into 2050 visions and Policy Challenges

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Saturday, November 1, 2014
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Futurium is a small concrete attempt to respond to the growing demand for citizen participation in policy making. Its structured approach to content co-creation and synthesis allows streamlining otherwise expensive traditional foresight processes.
The Futurium is an open source project, free for download by any public administration or private organisation. It is work in progress. Everyone can contribute to its further improvement and development or use it to support specific foresight and policy making needs.
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Mapping the Cost of Non-Europe, 2014 -19

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Monday, April 13, 2015
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This study brings together work in progress on a long-term project to identify and analyse the 'cost of non-Europe' in a number of policy fields. This concept, first pioneered by the European Parliament in the 1980s, is used here to quantify the potential efficiency gains in today's European economy from pursuing a series of policy initiatives recently advocated by Parliament - from a wider and deeper digital single market to better coordinated national and European policies for defence and development. The benefits may be measured principally in additional GDP generated or a more rational use of public resources. The latest analysis suggests that the European economy could be boosted by almost 1.6 trillion euro per year - or 12 per cent of EU-28 GDP (2014) - by such measures over time. The study is intended as a contribution to the on-going discussion about the European Union’s policy priorities over the current five-year institutional cycle, from 2014 to 2019.
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