The European Commission is dedicating 1.5 billion euros to accelerate the EU’s digitalisation, but one single US university, MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts (above), invests 1 billion. While EU universities can’t do it alone, they can still make an enormous difference.
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Compared to China and the United States, Europe has lagged behind in AI, big data and digitalisation in general. Status quo and how (higher) education potentially could help to reduce this gap.
Good jobs will go with a no-deal Brexit.
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The government’s £1.6 billion Stronger Towns Fund will be insufficient compensation for the effects of a no-deal Brexit.
Britain’s future relationship with the EU remains unclear.
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The ongoing policy uncertainty affects both ends of the economy: consumers and producers.
Pro-Europeans protest against the rulling coalition Social Democrat Party (PSD) next to the Romanian Atheneum during the ceremony of taking over the Presidency of EU Council in Bucharest January 10, 2019.
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With Romania at the helm of the EU, many fear that there’s a bumpy ride ahead. But there’s no need to worry (too much).
The GDPR should provide better protection of data and benefit the economy.
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The General Data Protection Regulations have been in force since May 2018. Analysis of its four key measures: labels, liability obligation, portability and pseudonymisation.
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Revolut recently got an EU banking licence from Lithuania but it’s facing some political headwinds.
If Cuban exiles can sue businesses operating in Cuba, it could affect flights to the country, like this JetBlue landing in Havana.
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Cuban exiles in the US may soon be able to sue companies that use property seized from them in the Cuban revolution. If Trump moves to allow that, it could slow economic development in Cuba.
Corn cobs dried up after a drought in eastern France in 2015.
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The climate issue cannot be considered less urgent than the social or economic crisis.
Growing, growing, gone.
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Brexit has stimulated the debate about the net economic benefits of EU membership. New findings show these are not clearly positive.
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Britain has long dreamed of breaking away from the European continent but global trade has never replaced links with its close neighbours.
Honduran migrants at the border with Mexico in mid January. Many will continue north to the US border.
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From Rahaf Mohammed to the fate of Syrian refugees and the US border wall – what ‘migration diplomacy’ means for world politics.
Irish premier Leo Varadkar: confident in his confidence and supply arrangement.
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The Irish premier Leo Varadkar leads a minority government that is holding steady despite a rocky start.
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The EU and Japan’s economies together account for about a third of global GDP.
Migrants on a ship intercepted offshore near the Libyan town of Gohneima, east of the capital Tripoli, in July 2018.
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After 1.3 million migrants from the Middle East and Africa came to Europe in 2015, many countries built fences or closed their ports. That has pushed migrants to take riskier routes into the EU.
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Even if there are delays, Britain produces half of the food it consumes and trade with the EU will not stop overnight.
Theresa May’s Brexit deal was voted down – but what was in it?
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If you’re confused about the deadlock in the UK over its withdrawal from the European Union, or Brexit, this might help clear some things up.
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Norway is deeply divided over the question of its relationship with the EU.
It has been a rollercoaster week for protestors outside parliament.
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She stays on as PM but that doesn’t leave her Brexit deal in any better shape.
Barnier: the ball’s in Britain’s court.
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There is little the EU can do while the UK is in disarray.
Theresa May likely wants to escape this room.
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The UK’s agonizing efforts to find a path out of the European Union is beginning to look a lot like a game or riddle with no solution – and certainly no winners.