EU 2020 Strategy: Who has the answers?
In 1899, a confident Charles H. Duell, Commissioner of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, claimed “Everything that can be invented has been invented”. It just goes to show that it is never easy to...
View ArticleEU 2020: Still some way to go…
Now that the new European Commission has been endorsed by the European Parliament, let’s go back to its policy agenda for the next five years which this blog has been covering since last summer....
View ArticleEuropean Union: Challenges ahead to December 2010…
Writing this blog from Seattle on America’s West Coast, while visiting the Microsoft campus to discuss some strategic issues concerning long-term trends, I am once again struck by how quickly the world...
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Time for the Conservative Party to get its priorities right on Europe
Passionate pleas have been made in the main hall at the Conservative Party Conference this week to encourage businesses to invest and promote growth in the months ahead. As the Prime Minister said in...
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Digital Single Market 2015: Falling behind schedule?
Earlier this week, more than 200 European high level decision-makers, business leaders and academics gathered in Copenhagen to identify and discuss the challenges of creating a truly European Digital...
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Energy Security: Still looking unpredictable?
At a Chatham House seminar launching a document called “Global Trends 2030: Citizens in an Interconnected and Polycentric World” last Friday (see 13 April), the question of scarcity of water, food...
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Digital Infrastructure: Do we have to dig for victory?
For the past few months, I have been urging a more radical approach for investing in digital infrastructure in the UK (see 23 March). What could be more poignant than to see the desire of a village...
View ArticleHow can European society take advantage of evolving technological trends?
As the current of the European political river begins to quicken as European elections approach in the second half of May, there is an increasing search for ideas – and of think tank platforms to...
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