First, the 2023 Strategic Foresight Report identifies six key challenges that policymakers will face during the transition towards a sustainable Europe, encompassing social and economic aspects of sustainability. These are: the rise of geopolitics and reconfiguration of globalisation; the quest for a sustainable economy and wellbeing; increasing pressure to ensure sufficient funding; growing demand for skills and competencies for the sustainable future; increasing cracks in social cohesion; and threats to democracy and to the existing social contract.
Second, the report proposes ten areas for action that the EU will need to take, to reinforce a socially and economically sustainable Europe with a stronger role in the world in the coming decades. Those areas for action cover a broad range of policy areas, from designing a new social contract and leveraging the power of our Single Market to supporting changes in production and consumption for greater sustainability. We also propose to strengthen the interlinkages between the EU's internal and external policies to boost the EU's offer and narrative on the global stage. We also aim at moving towards a ‘Europe of investments', by attracting more private financing in support of strategic investments for the green and digital transitions. And, to better anticipate and therefore be better prepared for any future disaster or disruption, we recommend to complement civil protection with more ‘civil prevention'.
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