Global Trends to 2030: Can the EU meet the challenges ahead?

Built on the previous reports drawn up under the ESPAS project to date, this study seeks to map more comprehensively the five major trends that are likely to shape the future and will need to be taken into account by the European Union as it defines coherent strategic options for the next governance cycle. They include:

+ A richer and older human race characterised by an expanding global middle class and greater inequalities
+ A more vulnerable process of globalisation led by an economic G3
+ A transformative industrial and technological revolution
+ A growing nexus of climate change, energy and the competition for resources
+ Changing power, increased interdependence and fragile multilateralism

• Primary Source

EU Bookshop: Link to this report through its DOI http://dx.publications.europa.eu/10.2796/25769

ESO: Background information: Global trends 2030: Citizens in an interconnected and polycentric world http://www.europeansources.info/record/global-trends-2030-citizens-in-an-interconnected-and-polycentric-world/

EurActiv, 16.11.15: EU 'brains' warn about end of free capital markets by 2030 http://www.euractiv.com/sections/euro-finance/eu-brains-warn-about-end-free-capital-markets-2030-319468

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