The EU can no longer boast of geopolitical or military power, but it can of the amount of regulation it produces. A mere excerpt from the package of new rules that must be introduced in the private sector by the end of the decade clearly suggests that the lack of ‘absorptive capacity’ will be a problem. Companies are already struggling to navigate the tsunami of regulations and their implementation, and new acronyms are just arriving… What will happen by 2030, which is marked in the EU as fateful, and how we will cope with all these numerous regulations and rules is explored in this week’s topic Tomislav Pili.
Interestingly, and not at all didactically, while the West was getting consumers used to the mass hyperproduction of Western goods, everything was fine. Today, when those same consumers are flooded with Chinese goods, alliances are reshuffling, blocks are breaking, tariffs are being introduced, and trade wars are being waged. This is, of course, about the evident hypocrisy of the West, which, as Americans would say, does not like the ‘taste of its own medicine’. In the current topic Gordana Gelenčer writes about the threat to the competitiveness of the West.
Denis Matijević is a serial entrepreneur in the agricultural and food sector. His latest project, presented to the public last week, is the creation of the Orka Group, which has brought together Matijević’s Slavonica and previously owned companies Bosnić, Fisherija, and LU-MA Ekskluziv, as well as their already market-known brands. The Orka Group is a holding focused on retail and wholesale of a diverse food assortment, and in a large interview Manuela Tašler states that Croatia cannot feed itself, let alone half of Europe.
One of the largest and oldest departments in the European Commission until recently was the one employing hundreds of translators, which is understandable since every official text in EU institutions had to be translated into the twenty-four working languages of the Union. However, last year, the department was decimated by artificial intelligence. Once technology mastered the European bureaucratic jargon, progress was impossible to stop, so it was only logical to reduce the number of employed translators. If this happened in highly regulated Brussels institutions, it is not hard to imagine what happened to companies that rely on translation services. Especially in Croatia. Ksenija Puškarić writes about the translation sector.
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