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Commission unveils its first Strategic Foresight Report: Charting the course towards a more resilient Europe

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The Commission has adopted its first-ever Strategic Foresight Report, aiming to identify emerging challenges and opportunities to better steer the EU's strategic choices. Strategic foresight will inform major policy initiatives and support the Commission in designing future-proof policies and legislation. The 2020 Report also introduces a comprehensive concept of EU resilience.

In light of the ambitious Recovery Plan for Europe, the 2020 Strategic Foresight Report considers EU resilience in four dimensions: social and economic, geopolitical, green, and digital. For each dimension, the report identifies the capacities, vulnerabilities and opportunities revealed by the coronavirus crisis, which need to be addressed in the medium- to long-term.

The Commission has relied on foresight for many years, but now aims to embed it into all policy areas, to exploit its strategic value. A first example is the recent Communication on Critical Raw Materials, with foresight helping boost the EU's open strategic autonomy. The 2020 Strategic Foresight Report proposes prototype resilience dashboards to kick‑start discussions among member states and other key stakeholders on how best to monitor resilience.  More information is available in the press release and Q&A.

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