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ARTICLE – November 14, 2017
A framework for free flow of non-personal data in the European Union
The Confederation of Swedish Enterprise welcomes this regulation with its aim to ensure the free data flow within the European Union. Europe can no longer afford to keep the Digital Single Market held back by protectionism and fragmentation, says Göran Norén, Head of Department, Industrial Affair...
ARTICLE – November 7, 2017
Nordic labour market models and the Social Pillar – complementary or colliding?
The Nordic employer organizations organised a seminar in Brussels where invited representatives from the EU institutions, industry and trade union discussed their views on the Social Pillar taking into account the Nordic labour market models.
ARTICLE – October 16, 2017
Connected consumers: risk or opportunity?
New technology and data-driven innovation create new business models and services that enable companies to help their customers by adjusting their products and become more relevant. At the same time, access to and analysis of data challenges the personal integrity and the view of how integrity sh...
ARTICLE – October 2, 2017
Business and politics hand in hand to solve environmental challenges
The world and humanity are facing some of our greatest challenges. More people are using more natural resources. Fish stocks are running the risk of extinction, freshwater resources are far from adequate, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is increasing and biodiversity is becoming depleted. Never ...
ARTICLE – September 12, 2017
The recipe for a competitive EU
The success of the EU’s can be measured largely in the level of exchange in goods, services, people, and capital. The complete implementation of the Single Market is key. Much remains to be done in many areas, such as the free movement of services and labour, eliminating restrictive national proc...
ARTICLE – June 9, 2017
Trump cannot kill climate hope
As the USA now plans to exit the Paris Climate agreement, the EU and Sweden can have the greatest impact by demonstrating that combining competitiveness and high levels of prosperity with continuing to reduce climate emissions is possible. The entrepreneurial sector will drive climate issues forw...
ARTICLE – June 9, 2017
Do we need a more social Europe?
Is a “Social Europe” the right medicine to stop growing populism? Can new social rights and social legislation foster growth and jobs? Is the fight against social dumping in fact a pretext for protecting domestic workers? What is the role of the EU and the Member States?
ARTICLE – June 1, 2017
Trust in the European Union at a crossroads – Europaperspektiv 2017
Swedish universities have since 1998 cooperated in national networks within political science, economics and law. The purpose is to enhance the interest and knowledge in the European Union. Each year a book is published to disseminate knowledge to a broader audience. The book is divided into thre...
ARTICLE – May 4, 2017
How the Nordics achieved an integrated electricity market – Lessons for Europe?
Last November, the European Commission presented its package "Clean Energy for All in Europe". Among the proposals currently being discussed in the Council of Ministers and in the European Parliament are the draft legislation on the electricity market design, security of supply and governance of ...
ARTICLE – April 24, 2017
Close the ecocycle – recycling is better than burning
Anders Olsson is CEO for recovery business, Cassandra Oil, in Västerås, Sweden. He thinks that misdirected regulatory frameworks skew the way society manages plastic waste.

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