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As we marked the EU Day for the Victims of the Global Climate Crisis this week, it is important to recognise that prioritising the Just Transition is essential. In fact, the green transition must go hand in hand with a social dimension, as these two aspects are mutually supportive.

We hope you all enjoy a restful break, so you can return refreshed in September, ready to engage in vibrant discussions and explore innovative progressive ideas!

BOOK

Climate progress in the EU and the world

FEPS Primer series

By Stephen Minas

Our latest addition to the FEPS Primers series delves into the process of how EU climate policy has been formulated at the EU level, the main tools used, the most important actors, and the path forward. It explains:

• why climate change matters
• the key issues in climate politics
• the international community’s climate goals
• EU climate law and policy

The primer also suggests progressive principles for strengthening climate change action.

The Annual Political Dialogue 2024 – Initiative for coal regions in transition, invited stakeholders from all EU coal, peat, lignite and oil shale regions, including European Commission VP Maroš Šefčovič.

Milan Petit, member of the research team from project SEER, participated to present the policy study he co-authored, ‘Expected labour market effects of the Green Deal Industrial Plan‘. The study assesses the effectiveness of complementing the GDIP with labour market policies in Just Transition regions, highlighting the challenges of labour shortages and structural unemployment.

Two publications on this topic are set to be released in the coming months. Stay tuned!

In light of the adoption of the New Pact on Migration and Asylum, join us at the Progressive Migration Group (PMG) conference to address the complexities of EU migration and asylum management and policies in African countries.

Register to discuss with migration experts from Europe and Africa the New Pact’s implications for Africa and the necessity of developing a migrant-centred approach.

Can’t wait? Read the PMG’s key findings and policy recommendations: 

• Growing remittance industry
• Designing labour migration policies that work for the EU and African countries
• A no-win situation
• Bridging the gap between EU migration and development policies
• The ‘irregular’ distraction in the New Pact

The EU is a world-leading digital regulatory power, but it remains a technology taker. What should be next in European digital policy?

This is what we discussed during an expert roundtable with key policymakers, including MEPs from the S&D Group, Alex Agius Saliba and Birgit Sippel. We also presented our latest policy brief, ‘Digital regulatory power but technology taker‘, which argues that rules are insufficient to create a value-led technological ecosystem. Europe should instead build its own capacity for a digital ecosystem and not rely on the harmful extraction of personal data, as is the case under the surveillance capitalist model of Big Tech companies.

This policy brief precedes a more in-depth policy study co-authored with high-level experts in digital and innovation policy, such as Francesca Bria, Johnny Ryan and others. Stay tuned!

The internal market and competitiveness have been focal topics within the EU following the release of ‘More than a Single Market’ by Enrico Letta and the upcoming report by Mario Draghi.

Professor Iain Begg (European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science) shares his views about these two reports in the face of the new upcoming EU legislative cycle.

Two years have passed since Emmanuel Macron proposed establishing a European Political Community (EPC). Yet the idea, promising as it was, remains fraught with strategic inconsistencies. The fourth and fifth summits of the EPC, hosted by the United Kingdom on 18 July and Hungary on 7 November, will be a call on re-assessing the EPC’s raison d’être and ambitions. What a progressive Europe needs today, is not another catch-all potpourri of summit diplomacy, it is the cohesive and pioneering engagement of a (smaller) group of states putting their weight in reaffirming the fundamentals of Europe’s security order. 

Photo credits: Pool PEUE/ Villar López

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