Flash and Facts

21 August 2015

The Invasion of our Privacy

Despite our denials we gladly sacrifice privacy for the sake of convenience. How could we today live without the Internet or a credit card? It is impossible in a professional environment. And it ...

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31 July 2015

It's Time to Boost Europe's High-Tech

Europe has a difficulty in breaking through in high-tech industries. A new industrial policy must focus on innovation in order to prevent the weakening of its position in global competition. It is ...

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31 July 2015

Warnings about Declining Birth Rates

The magic number needed to keep the population from starting to shrink is 2.1. And yet this "replacement fertility rate" was only 1.55 live births per woman in the EU in 2013. Since the ...

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13 July 2015

Technology versus Jobs: the Debate is not Over

Some experts announced that the ongoing "Third Industrial Revolution" -Internet, Robotics, Green Energy etc...- will create millions of jobs. This is not an unlikely outcome. But what ...

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13 July 2015

An obvious link between Climate and Economy

Today, challenges that have arisen as a result of climate change involve all society. The vast majority of scientific and economic experts throughout the world are convinced that the worst solution ...

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30 June 2015

A Quick Glance at Trade between India and Europe

The value of EU-India trade grew from € 28.6 billion in 2003 to € 72.5 billion in 2014 (Data European Commission). This significant increase has occurred despite the challenging ...

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30 June 2015

The Cybercrime Economy

The annual cost to the global economy from cybercrime is estimated to be between US$ 375 billion and US$ 575 billion (CSIS-Mc Afee 2014). Our hyper-connected world, and particularly the digital ...

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12 June 2015

A Growing Migratory Pressure

Up to 3.7 million Syrian citizens have taken refuge in neighbouring countries. And this is the tragic consequence of just one armed conflict which is today sweeping the planet. However, these ...

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12 June 2015

A European Army ?

The idea to build a European defence goes back to 1950! Yet this project, strictly for political reasons, is still in its embryonic stages. It is noteworthy that the Franco-German Brigade which was ...

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29 May 2015

Poverty: a Major Concern to Europeans

In Europe, 122.6 million people or 24.5% of the population were at risk of poverty or social exclusion (EU-28 Eurostat 2013). Even more worrying is the fact that children and active-age people were ...

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