The European Green Deal is not just the next economic strategy. It becomes the most important priority that is meant to ensure EU’s recovery, resilience and strategic sovereignty all together.

This publication wishes to assess the political, social, cultural and economic consequences of digitalization during the COVID-19 pandemic. It also focuses on EU level policy solutions which were introduced to ease related conflicts and problems. Nevertheless, even during an emergency situation the liberal principles of the EU should not be abandoned.

This publication is an attempt to describe the situation of LGBTIQ+ people in Eastern Europe, thirty years after the process of transformation began in the region.

Thorough systemic changes for reaching true gender equality in the political representation of women in European societies, of course, require research of reasons for women’s underrepresentation when it comes to participation in politics.

The existence of a Multi-Speed Europe is a reality. The concept relates to the pace of integration – or lack thereof – of Member States into different structures of Union. The dissimilarity of integrative speed is intrinsically linked to the different resources, goals and socio-economic backgrounds of each Member State.

Welcome to the future! From robotics and biomedicine to quantum computing, what long seemed like science fiction is now science reality. How can Europe ensure an innovation-friendly environment to stay at the forefront of progress? What is on the horizon in the fields of software, hardware, medicine, and biotechnology? Forward-looking policies will keep Europe at the cutting edge while ensuring new technologies are embedded in European values.

The EU Policy Review is a collection of papers published by the European Liberal Forum in course of the past year.

The allocation of Next Generation EU funds and subsequent national recovery and resilience plans paves the way for
criminal organisations to threaten the fair implementation of the funds via fraudulent operations. In this context, the issue of corruption is as urgent as ever, also considering the recent launch of the “Operation Sentinel”
coordinated by the Europol.

Migration is increasingly becoming a challenge to European integration. The so-called “crisis” is primarily a crisis of deficient migration management. The “European Cities Network on Migration” aims at strengthening migration management along with liberal principles through a transnational network of local communities.

Following question: how should the European Union (EU) Member States implement the resources allocated with the Next Generation EU fund (Next Gen EU)?

This Policy Brief will focus on the “reason why of the decentralising process.

The aim of the publication is to provide a comparative study analysing how corruption is rooted in the examined countries, highlighting the governments’ different approaches in tackling the phenomenon, and finally to sum-up the findings of the study underlining some potentially efficient policy recommendations under a liberal perspective.