The European Committee of the Regions (CoR) - the EU's political assembly of cities and regions - will participate at the 16th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP16). The CoR delegation will represent the voices of EU local and regional authorities to...

This annex is an integral part of the State of the Digital Decade 2024 report. It maintains the three-chapter structure from the 2023 report, focusing on competitiveness, people and society and smart greening, and introduces an additional chapter on synergising digital policies and spending....

This annex is an integral part of the State of the Digital Decade 2024 report. It maintains the three-chapter structure from the 2023 report, focusing on competitiveness, people and society and smart greening, and introduces an additional chapter on synergising digital policies and spending....

This working paper describes the set of macroeconomic globalisation indicators computed on the basis of the EU inter-country supply, use, and input-output tables, called the FIGARO tables, offering illustrative and explanatory examples.These indicators are crucial for assessing the EU economic...

This paper investigates how the import relations of the European Union (EU) have recently shifted in an increasingly fragmented global trade environment. Using trade data at a highly disaggregated product level, we analyse the reallocation of EU import flows, examining its implications in terms...

This article examines the global economic shift away from US dollar dominance, focusing on the rise of the Chinese yuan and de-dollarization efforts, particularly by Russia and BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa). The study explores the dollar's dominance since World...

This editorial revisits the state - global production network (GPN) nexus in times of multiple crises affecting the global economy and society. Setting the scene, we first reflect on the role of geopolitics in transforming GPNs under conditions of increasing uncertainty before turning our...

In an era of multiple crises and geopolitical uncertainty, the need to deal with heightened risk drives states to locate strategic global production networks (GPNs) in geopolitically aligned states, a trend known as friendshoring. In this paper, we contribute to the literature on the role of...

In this article, we present an analysis of how East Asian states (specifically, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan) are adapting to the emerging geopolitical contexts of the "great powers competition" between the United States and China. To the extent that the previous literature on GPN/GVC...