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The EU has started reflecting on its vision for emerging virtual worlds (metaverses) and providing funding opportunities to develop these worlds. The aim is to ensure that people are protected in virtual worlds and that EU businesses, in particular SMEs, are not driven out of competition.

Semiconductors (or chips) are the foundation of the digital transition. Their production relies on complex and vulnerable global supply chains. Against the backdrop of global chip shortages, a global 'subsidy race' in the world's main producing regions, and the renewed EU industrial policy, the Commission presented a proposal for an EU chips act aimed at reinforcing the whole EU chips value chain in February 2022. The proposal for a chips act was based on a three-pillar structure, which has been ...

The proposed European chips act, presented by the European Commission in February 2022, aims to mobilise €43 billion in 'policy-driven investment' for the EU's semiconductor sector by 2030. The Commission expects long-term private investment to exceed this. The plan serves to enable immediate EU coordination against supply disruptions, strengthen and scale up production and innovation throughout the EU semiconductor value chain, and further enhance the Union's technological leadership, practical ...

Innovation in medical devices benefits patients, doctors and the medical technology industry. The European Commission has proposed legis­lation aimed at enhancing safety, traceability, and transparency without inhibiting innovation.

EU industry depends almost entirely on a handful of countries for imports of 14 critical raw materials (CRMs). These are of high economic significance and are at particularly high risk of supply shortages. Geographical concentration of CRM production, growing global demand and a tendency of main suppliers to apply export restrictions to reserve CRM stocks for domestic industrialisation has rendered access to CRM markets increasingly difficult.

This study prepared by TNO analyzes a part of European Space Policy and Programme under three main themes: space related applications and market players; benefits from the European Space Policy and Program; and governance aspects and policy implications. As instructed by study’s administrators, the report concentrates on two primary sectors of interest – Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), including Galileo, and Earth Observation, including the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security ...

This study seeks to describe prospects for and possible areas of cooperation in the energy sector between the EU and the countries in the Far East (ASEAN States, Japan and Korea).