Ukraine: Awaiting Russia’s offensive [What Think Tanks are thinking]
This note gathers links to the recent publications and commentaries from many international think tanks on Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Briefings
Proposal for a ban on goods made using forced labour [EU Legislation in Progress]
Forced labour, including forced child labour, is still widespread across the world. The International Labour Organization (ILO) estimates the global number of people in a situation of forced labour at around 27.6 million, including 3.3 million children.
Artificial intelligence liability directive [EU Legislation in Progress]
Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are increasingly used to improve decision-making processes in a number of sectors such as health (e.g. disease diagnosis tools), mobility (e.g. autonomous driving systems), or agriculture (e.g. monitoring tools).
New Product Liability Directive [EU Legislation in Progress]
The transformation to a digital economy and society is changing the economic reality of the single market. New emerging technologies (e.g. cleaning robots and medical health apps) already benefit our society and economy, but also present potential risks.
Towards an EU global sanctions regime for corruption
In December 2020, the EU adopted a global human rights sanctions regime (EUGHR SR) enabling it to apply targeted restrictive measures against persons responsible for serious human rights violations and abuses (such as genocide, torture, slavery, extrajudicial killings or arbitrary arrests), and for other human rights violations (such as human trafficking, abuses of freedoms of: peaceful assembly, association, opinion and expression, religion and belief), if widespread and systematic
Revision of Council Directive 93/109/EC: Electoral rights of mobile EU citizens in elections to the European Parliament [EU Legislation in Progress]
The concept of European Union (EU) citizenship was formally introduced into the constitutional order by Article 8 of the Treaty of Maastricht (now Article 20 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU));
Single market emergency instrument: Protecting the single market in future crises [EU Legislation in Progress]
In 2023, the EU celebrates the 30th anniversary of the single market, often considered to be the cornerstone of European integration.
EU-US Trade and Technology Council: Modest progress in a challenging context
The European Commission first floated the idea of an EU-US Trade and Technology Council (TTC) in December 2020, following Joe Biden’s election as the US president.
Data collection and sharing relating to short-term accommodation rental services [EU Legislation in Progress]
Short-term accommodation rentals offered by individual or professional hosts are nothing new
EU feed autonomy: Closing the gaps in European food security
In 2021, the EU agricultural industry’s output had a gross value of €449.9 billion, 36.2 % of which was represented by animal output (including the dairy and egg industries), for a value of €163 billion.