China has always puzzled the world. And continues to do so, even though China has never opened up so much towards the global community as today. While in the past China’s mysteries were interesting for scientists, explorers and the odd travelling merchant, currently every citizen in the world wants and...
THE ROLE OF GENDER EQUALITY FOR A COMPETITIVE EUROPE
Ms. Sirpa Pietikäinen is a Finnish member of the European People’s Party (EPP) in the European Parliament. She is a former Finnish Minister of Environment (1991-1995), and her career at the Finnish parliament is extensive, ranging from the year 1983 to 2003. At the European Parliament, Sirpa Pietikäinen is a...
TECHNOLOGY OBLIGES: BUILDING THE WORLD’S LEADING TECH NETWORK
In my Editorial, I focused on what we have achieved with “Visions for Europe” in its first year, but 2021 has seen some heavyweight achievements by the European Technology Chamber, which entitle us to aim for even greater things in the years ahead. As you will know, our foundation, our...
THE UN INTERNET GOVERNANCE FORUM 2021 INTERNET UNITED
The Internet was launched in 1983, and it has become vitally important for billions of people since the invention of the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1990. Today, economic, and political opportunities and the potential risks of the Internet are clear. Most of us access it daily, not only in...
INTERVIEW WITH IRENE JOVEVA: HOW EDTECH COULD CHANGE THE FUTURE OF EUROPE
Irena Joveva is a Slovenian politician who was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2019. In parliament, she has since been serving on the Committee on Culture and Education. In addition to her committee assignments, Joveva is part of the Parliament’s delegation to the EU-North Macedonia Joint...
INTERVIEW WITH LUKAS MANDL: THE ROLE OF EUROPE IN A SAFE WORLD
Q1. The world has changed dramatically within the last years, how should Europe position itself in the new global order? Europe must develop more strength to the outside and establish more freedom to the inside. The socalled “new global order”, can be understood as a dynamic process with tremendous speed,...
WITH GREAT TECHNOLOGY COMES GREAT RESPONSIBILITY TECHNOLOGY OBLIGES
Florian von Tucher is Chairman of the Tucher Group, which is the holding company of his family’s Engineering, Investment and Project Development companies. As Chairman of the EU Tech Chamber and President of the EU Senate of Economy and Technology he actively promotes the vision that „With Great Technology, Comes...
PARTNERSHIP FOR AN INCLUSIVE GROWTH
Distinguished Members of the European Technology Chamber (EUTECH); Dear readers of Visions for Europe, I greet all of you very warmly, and do, on behalf of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development of the Holy See and on behalf of Mustard Seed-IHD welcome you to the first edition of...
WITH GREAT TECHNOLOGY COMES GREAT RESPONSIBILITY: THE DUTY OF TECH
In 2015, when I returned from having spent exactly 10 years in China, I was excited to be part of the European tech sector once again. In Asia, technological advances and innovation were happening at lightning speed, making their position in the global marketplace robust. My excitement was soon quashed...
INTERVIEW: HOW SHOULD EUROPE FIGHT THE CORONA PANDEMIC?
Dr Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit is the Deputy Head of the WHO collaborating Centre for Arbovirus and Haemorrhagic Fever Reference and Research at Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg. He is one of the most requested virologists in Germany when it comes to an assessment of the current coronavirus situation.