Uploaded December 2023 | Updated September 2026, 7 hours ago
Open strategic autonomy is about ensuring that the EU has the capacity to cope alone if necessary but without ruling out cooperation whenever possible. It goes some steps beyond smart supply chain management by taking into account geopolitics as well as economic factors. It relies on foresight to identify threats and ensures resilience by anticipating the required responses. Could the resulting preparedness also prevent crises by normalising situations that would otherwise become emergencies?
🔎 Learn more about open strategic autonomy: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/EPRS_ATA(2023)747420
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00:00 Facing a world in crisis
00:21 What is open strategic autonomy?
01:10 Why is it a key concept?
02:13 Application at EU level
03:25 Read more
Open strategic autonomy is about ensuring that the EU has the capacity to cope alone if necessary but without ruling out cooperation whenever possible. It goes some steps beyond smart supply chain management by taking into account geopolitics as well as economic factors. It relies on foresight to identify threats and ensures resilience by anticipating the required responses. Could the resulting preparedness also prevent crises by normalising situations that would otherwise become emergencies?
🔎 Learn more about open strategic autonomy: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/EPRS_ATA(2023)747420
📲 Find all our publications on our EPRS app:
• iOS: http://epyoutube.eu/q57W
• Android: http://epyoutube.eu/q57X
00:00 Facing a world in crisis
00:21 What is open strategic autonomy?
01:10 Why is it a key concept?
02:13 Application at EU level
03:25 Read more
![Rules on revolving doors in the EU [Policy Podcast]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6soMAaZdwD8/mqdefault.jpg "Rules on revolving doors in the EU [Policy Podcast]
How does the EU regulate the post term activities of members of the EU institutions, as for example, Commissioners and Members of the European Parliament, as opposed to staff members? The European Ombudsman has looked the phenomenon, also called ‘revolving doors’ in the context of several individual cases; on a few occasions this has ended in an unsatisfactory outcome for the institution or body under investigation and prompted the European Ombudsman to make specific recommendations to avoid a repeat of maladministration in future cases.
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Rules on revolving doors in the EU: Post-mandate restrictions on members of EU institutions and parliamentarians in Member States
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/EPRS_IDA(2024)762290
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![Choosing Europe’s Future: The ESPAS global trends report 2024 [Policy podcast]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7udHyMuzwec/mqdefault.jpg "Choosing Europe’s Future: The ESPAS global trends report 2024 [Policy podcast]
In a year when the European Union enters a new institutional cycle, it is timely to look ahead to the strategic choices our political leaders may be asked to make in the next five years. These choices will undoubtedly be taken against a backdrop of heightened global uncertainty with geopolitics shifting quickly in new and unexpected ways. This ESPAS Global Trends Report 2024 is a contribution to the ongoing debate about the future of Europe, its role in the world and its ability to adapt and change to meet fresh challenges and harness new opportunities. This report attempts to identify the key global trends, analyse their significance for Europe, assess the agency the European Union has to influence global thinking, and sets out some of the main strategic choices policymakers may be required to make — choices that will have a strong bearing on the kind of Europe we will live in by 2040.
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Choosing Europe’s Future: The ESPAS global trends report 2024
https://espas.eu/files/espas_files/about/ESPAS-Global-Trends-to-2040-Choosing-Europes-Future.pdf
Choosing Europes future: The 2024 ESPAS report
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/ATAG/2024/757825/EPRS_ATA(2024)757825_EN.pdf
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Digital trade has become a key element in the EUs trade policy. The EU is the worlds largest exporter and importer of digitally deliverable services and has a strong market position. Therefore, the development towards more digital trade provides opportunities for European consumers, for the economy and for the EU’s green and digital transition.
The key difference between digital trade and traditional trade is the prominence of cross-border data flows. However, certain data are considered sensitive and require protection and/or specific processing conditions.
See the publication behind this podcast: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/EPRS_BRI(2024)757615
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![How is the European Parliaments President elected? [Policy Podcast]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9uMTDZHXGzM/mqdefault.jpg "How is the European Parliaments President elected? [Policy Podcast]
On Its first and constituent plenary sitting of the new parliamentary term (16-19 July 2024), the European Parliament will elect its 32nd President, to hold office for the first half of the 10th parliamentary term, until January 2026. The President has an important and increasingly visible function in the EU institutional and international setting, mirroring Parliaments influential role as shaper of EU policies and as co-legislator.
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Electing the European Parliaments President
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/EPRS_ATA(2024)762340
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![Future shocks 2023: Biodiversity loss or collapse [Policy podcast]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/A1lLoy9mYwI/mqdefault.jpg "Future shocks 2023: Biodiversity loss or collapse [Policy podcast]
More than any other continent, Europes biodiversity has been shaped by human activities and is under constant pressure from human production and consumption. Changes in ecosystem services that are essential to human life affect livelihoods, incomes and local migration, and can even cause or exacerbate political conflict. Despite significant efforts, the latest European Environment Agency assessment shows that the vast majority of EU habitats (81 %) and species (63 %) have poor or bad conservation status.
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https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/EPRS_STU(2023)751428")
