Commission launches a reflection on harnessing globalisation

The Commission has published a Reflection Paper on Harnessing Globalisation.

The paper aims to launch a debate on how the EU and its Member States can shape globalisation in a way that anticipates the future and improves the lives of Europeans and can respond to its opportunities and challenges.

This reflection paper follows up on the White Paper on the Future of Europe presented on 1 March 2017, which sets out the main challenges and opportunities for Europe in the coming decade.

List of documents

• REFLECTION PAPER ON HARNESSING GLOBALISATION COM/2017/0240 final

Summaries of EU legislation

• Globalisation: Development & Trade
  • EU trade policy towards developing countries, including ‘Aid for Trade’
  • Building up resilience in developing countries
  • Eradicating poverty and achieving sustainable development
  • Global action to eradicate poverty and develop sustainably post-2015
  • Fair trade — trade-related sustainability assurance schemes
  • Cotonou Agreement
  • Moving from aid-dependence to self-reliance
  • Sovereign debt crisis — EU financial assistance to countries in difficulties

• Globalisation & Economy:
  • The EU’s ideas on how to move to a successful data-driven economy
  • An integrated industrial policy for the globalisation era
  • Driving forward the entrepreneurship of European SMEs
  • Boosting international tourism in Europe

• Globalisation & climate change: renewable energy, low-carbon technologies
  • Climate change – Paris Agreement, ratified by EU
  • Reducing greenhouse gases by 2020: Effort Sharing Decision
  • SET-Plan for the development of low-carbon technologies
  • NER 300 programme - increasing low-carbon technologies in the EU
  • A strategy for competitive, sustainable and secure energy
  • Promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources
  • Blue Energy — renewable ocean energy
  • Redesigning the EU’s energy market
  • 2020 climate and energy package

• Globalisation & Agriculture
  • The future of organic farming in the European Union

• E-commerce & secure transaction on the Internet
  • Transparent securities financing transactions
  • More secure transactions on the Internet
  • E-commerce - standard EU rules

• Technology: Health
  • Unlocking the potential for mHealth (mobile health) in the EU

• Technology: counter-terrorism
  • Preventing abuse of the financial system for money laundering and terrorism purposes

• Mobility
  • Mobility for students, trainees, young volunteers, teachers and trainers
  • Admission and residence of researchers from non-EU countries
  • Young volunteers — mobility within the EU

• Migration: technology & work opportunities
  • eu-LISA: managing IT systems in the field of border and migration controls
  • Eurodac: European system for the comparison of fingerprints of asylum applicants
  • EU Blue Card — entry and residence of highly qualified workers

Glossary terms of the summaries of EU legislation

• Globalisation of the economy

Related Sites

• Press release​​
• Reflection paper on harnessing globalisation​​