Briefing – Artificial Intelligence and public services – 22-07-2021
AI has become a key enabling technology in public services and its use has increased over the past two years.Ensuring explainabilty of AI systems…
Briefing – EU-Belarus relations: State of play – Human rights situation and Ryanair flight diversion – 22-07-2021
The falsified presidential elections of August 2020, and the brutal crackdown against peacefully protesting Belarusians, led to the isolation of …
Briefing – Strengthening Europol’s mandate – 20-07-2021
Europol has been at the forefront of fighting serious and organised crime in the EU. However, with digital transformations and a global interconn…
Briefing – Application of the equal pay principle through pay transparency measures – 22-07-2021
This briefing provides an initial analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the impact assessment (IA) accompanying the Commission proposal for…
In-Depth Analysis – Euro Area fiscal policies and capacity in post-pandemic times – 23-07-2021
The Covid-19 pandemic has created huge challenges for policymakers in the whole world. These challenges have to do with both the short run and th…
Briefing – Artificial Intelligence in smart cities and urban mobility – 23-07-2021
Artificial Intelligence (AI) enabling smart urban solutions brings multiple benefits, including more efficient energy, water and waste management…
Study – Guidelines for foresight-based policy analysis – 26-07-2021
Policy analysis examines and assesses problems to determine possible courses for policy action (policy options). In highly complex or controversi…
Briefing – Artificial intelligence act – 26-07-2021
The Commission is proposing a new Artificial Intelligence Act laying down rules harmonised rules on AI. This initial appraisal of the Commission&…
Briefing – Budgetary control of the Sustainable Development Goals in the EU budget – 27-07-2021
As of July 2021, only very limited conclusions can be drawn about the performance of EU policies and programmes towards the Sustainable Developme…
Briefing – Improving corporate sustainability reporting – 27-07-2021
The European Commission proposed to improve sustainability reporting by revising the non-financial reporting directive 2014/95/EU. The accompanyi…