European Economic
and Social Committee
Workers' group - Better Policymaking and Strategic Foresight
Anticipating the future
- The objective of strategic foresight is to anticipate. It aims to identify multiple plausible scenarios for the future, to prepare for them and thus to design a future as close as possible to the individual and collective expectations of citizens.
- A structured exploration of alternative futures, foresight is more about shaping the future than predicting it.
- Foresight is a call to action. It seeks to coordinate and place the policies followed in a perspective, which makes it possible to get out of silo thinking and the fragmentation of action, it being understood that foresight is an aid to decision-making and that it should not replace it.
- For the first time, the Commission has just released a communication in which it proposes to integrate foresight into the political cycle of the European Union.
Creating a resilient Europe
- For this first exercise, the Commission chose the theme of resilience, analysed under the four dimensions “social and economic”, “geopolitical”, “green” and “digital”, by identifying for each of them the strong points and the weak points. Special attention must be paid to:
- who chooses the baseline scenario(s), and how.
- what will be the components of the complete foresight cycle.
- the concrete link between foresight and the Better Regulation program, which should aim to improve the quality of legislation and not constitute a deregulation exercise.
- the link between foresight and the European impact assessment system.
</h2> <hr /> <h2 class=" width="1073" />