On 31 January 2020, Brexit became a fact. The UK is no longer an EU member state and is considered by the EU as a third country. Since th...

In Delivering on European common goods. Strengthening Member States’ capacity to act in the 21st century the European Political Strategy ...

It is common knowledge that global debt has risen sharply since the 2008 crisis. The Worldbank, which has just presented the first in-dep...

The biannual melting of polar ice in both hemispheres has received significant media attention over the last two decades, especially afte...

The outbreak of the Coronavirus in Wuhan, China, in January 2020 has drawn renewed attention to the possible consequences of a pandemic –...

Within debates regarding global climate change, the emission of carbon dioxide (CO2) as a consequence of burning fossil energy sources, s...

Within the Horizon Europe framework programme that begins in 2021, five mission areas can be identified. One of these areas is “climate-n...

The world of passports has changed radically over time. Austrian novelist Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) famously noted that there was a time w...

As the Middle East crisis continues to unfold with its current focus on Iran and Iraq, the U.S. have warned Iraq that its vote to expel U...

The FCI previously touched on some of the “mission areas” that the EU has identified as key fields of research and innovation under the €...

One of the five “mission areas” identified by the European Union as part of the Horizon Europe framework programme beginning in 2021 is “...

While multiple citizenship was traditionally rejected, it has nowadays become increasingly common. From 1960 onwards, dual citizenship to...

As the year is coming to a close, FCI takes stock of some migration-related developments in 2019. In January it had become clear that the...

Subsequent to the emergence of digital and encrypted money comes an increase of globally offered goods and services. This novel competiti...

In November last year, during the second International Summit on Human Gene Editing, a presentation by Chinese researcher He Jiankui rais...

As bitcoin has been designed to be a peer-to-peer cash system, an alternative to government-backed fiat currencies, warnings regarding it...

In our current age we want to store so much data that technology cannot keep up. A promising solution seems to be data storage in synthet...

This month the triennial PISA ranking – the Programme for International Student Assessment – was published, the seventh round of assessme...

Modern societies are struggling how to cope with an ever faster succession of innovations as well as major challenges such as climate cha...

One of the decisive factors for a good education system is giving teachers ownership of the teaching process. According to Andreas Schlei...