Strategic Foresight Report 2025

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Ongoing (updated on 23/10/2025) - Bureau decision date: 15/07/2025
Reference
INT/1099-EESC
Referral
COM(2025) 484 final
Rapporteur
Philip VON BROCKDORFF
Workers - GR II
Malta
Plenary session number
604
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Opinions of the EESC Youth Test
Better regulation
European Commission

Background

The world has changed dramatically in the last few years. We are seeing the erosion of the international rules-based order, the impacts of climate change and environmental degradation are worsening faster than expected, and security becoming a central focus in all policies. In addition, we are facing intersecting EU-specific challenges.  The EU has shown strength, unity and transformative resilience in responding to recent crises. However, the scale and complexity of the challenges ahead require a proactive and forward-looking approach. 2025 Strategic Foresight Report presents "Resilience 2.0", an approach to ensuring the EU thrives in turbulent times through 2040 and beyond. It builds on the recent European Preparedness Strategy and recognises the need to scan proactively not only for emerging risks but also for future opportunities, and to consider unfamiliar or even hard-to-imagine scenarios.

Practical information

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