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Tuesday 7 October

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Tuesday 7 October

Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

Written by Mario Damen.

On 9 September 2025, the European Commission presented its latest strategic foresight report – ‘Resilience 2.0: empowering the EU to thrive amid turbulence and uncertainty’ – the first such report of the second von der Leyen Commission. Building on established trends, it provides updates on global and EU-specific challenges. The four EU-specific challenges outlined in the report require balancing competitiveness and strategic autonomy, technological innovation and appropriate safeguards, sustained well-being and adaptation to demographic and climate change, and democracy and algorithm-based use of (social) media. Addressing these challenges arguably requires a transformative, proactive and forward-looking approach to resilience, called ‘resilience 2.0’.

The report identifies eight areas of action for increased EU resilience: global vision, amplified security, enhanced technology and research, economic resilience, sustainable and inclusive well-being, a new perspective on education, strengthened democracy, and intergenerational fairness. These areas echo the political guidelines of the second von der Leyen Commission and the European Council Strategic Agenda, and read more like a political agenda or a set of intentions than a foresight analysis. The European Economic and Social Committee is to draft an opinion on the report, while the European Parliament and the Council do not typically take positions on such reports. However, Parliament might draw inspiration from national parliamentary foresight practices to do so in the future.

Read the complete briefing on ‘Strategic Foresight Report 2025: Resilience 2.0‘ in the Think Tank pages of the European Parliament.

Az átlagosnál melegebb volt az idei szeptember, a legmagasabb havi átlaghőmérsékletet a pozsonyi repülőtér mérőállomásán és Muzslán mérték.

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La Cour européenne des droits de l'homme a récemment estimé que certains États membres de l'UE violaient les droits de l'homme liés à l'immigration. En réponse à ces arrêts, les efforts pour contrôler la juridiction se sont multipliés.

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