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The Shadow Code: How AI is Rewriting the Rulebook of Cybercrime

Trend Report on Europol’s IOCTA 2026 The New Digital Underworld: A Landscape in Flux The cybercrime ecosystem of 2026 is no longer a shadowy corner...
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Trend Report: The EU Member States’ Veto Power – Consequences and Pathways to Reform

The European Union’s decision-making process is a delicate balance between supranational integration and intergovernmental sovereignty. At the heart of this balance lies the veto power,...
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EU Energy Dependence as a Security Risk: Trends, Threats, and Solutions

The European Union's energy landscape has undergone a fundamental transformation from a model of market-driven efficiency to one of national security prioritization. The convergence of...
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Welcome to European trends – the Europeans, the Regions and EU

Welcome to European trends - the Europeans, the Regions and EU

 

In this age of transformation into the digital age. We are analyzing the progress in Europe, not the conflicts, but instead the trends, innovation, and what is around the next corner of the development. We have just started the project Interactive Trend Analysis with the aim of finding new innovative ways to visualize and interactiveize the production of trend analyses. This is alongside a number of other new features that Europatrends plans to introduce in the coming months.

European trends from an EU, innovation, regional, and city perspective are a deliberate choice in order to start with the main engines of European development. In this way, the Europeans and Europe are analyzed from a trend perspective. But, what about the nations then? The answer is that it is they who mainly throw sand in the development often only because of their own hegemonic ambitions. Thus, it is not a level to analyze European trends from, but they function more as obstacles and resistance to Europe’s common development potential.


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The Shadow Code: How AI is Rewriting the Rulebook of Cybercrime

Trend Report on Europol’s IOCTA 2026 The New Digital Underworld: A Landscape in Flux The cybercrime ecosystem of 2026 is no longer a shadowy corner of the internet, it is a sprawling, hyper-connected metropolis, where encryption, proxies, and artificial intelligence have become the architects of a new era of digital …

Trend Report: The EU Member States’ Veto Power – Consequences and Pathways to Reform

The European Union’s decision-making process is a delicate balance between supranational integration and intergovernmental sovereignty. At the heart of this balance lies the veto power, the ability of any single member state to block decisions in areas where the EU treaties require unanimity rather than qualified majority voting. While 80% …

EU Energy Dependence as a Security Risk: Trends, Threats, and Solutions

The European Union’s energy landscape has undergone a fundamental transformation from a model of market-driven efficiency to one of national security prioritization. The convergence of the war in Ukraine, instability in the Middle East, and the accelerating climate crisis has exposed the fragility of relying on external hydrocarbon suppliers. This …

Europe’s Tech Sovereignty Revolution: The Quiet War for Digital Control

April 2026 — The Continent Wakes Up to Its Own Power For decades, Europe relied on American and Chinese technology giants to power its digital life. But as geopolitical tensions flare, as surveillance laws blur borders, and as the specter of vendor lock-in looms over every government server, a new …

The Silent Shift: A Human Health Chronicle of Europe’s Changing Nicotine Landscape

Date: April 9, 2026 Subject: Trends in Tobacco and Nicotine Use in the EU (Based on JRC Report 2026)  Prologue: The Great Substitution The air in Europe is changing. For decades, the scent of burning tobacco was the universal marker of addiction, a choking, acrid cloud that lingered on clothes …

Trend Report: Europe’s Scaleup Gap and the Rise of “EU Inc”

The Paradox: High Volume, Low Velocity For years, a startling paradox has defined the European tech landscape: Europe creates more startups than the United States, yet it fails to turn them into global giants. In 2025, the continent continued to outpace the US in new company registrations at the seed …