Patrick Grady

NEW: Excited to be launching a new substack🔥 We believe Europe’s glass is half full. DG Progress is here show all the ways we are already a global tech leader, and what more our innovators need to succeed.

EU social media ban 👇

euractiv.com/news/eu-plans-… The panel of experts the Commission set up (due to publish their recommendations 13 July) looks increasingly performative

Europe is the fastest-warming continent on Earth, and it's time to face the heat 🥵 As heatwaves become the new normal, Europe's rejection of AC technology is starting to look increasingly backwards. While those with means retreat to climate-controlled comfort, vulnerable citizens are often left in poorly insulated, overheating buildings. We aren't asking for "indoor-ski-slope" cooling; we are calling for clean, efficient, and accessible public health infrastructure. While we Europeans cannot fathom the number of gun victims in the US; the US cannot fathom why Europe needlessly suffers worse sleep, less productive summers, and – in the worst cases – heat deaths (chart below thanks to Hannah Ritchie: hannahritchie.substack.com/p/heat-guns-am…). True progress is about adaptation. It’s time to embrace a modern approach to urban living that puts safety above outdated ideological taboos. Let's stop improvising with wet towels and start building the future. 🇪🇺🚀

Check out the proposal and full list of responses here: ec.europa.eu/info/law/bette…

5️⃣ Monitor and communicate progress The proposal includes a 5-year reporting cycle (attached). That's too slow. Publish annual reports with KPIs, case studies, cost comparisons, and recommendations. Use it to advertise the initiative and drive uptake across Europe 📊

🇪🇺 EU Inc could be Europe's answer to Delaware–if designed right. The EU got the setup right: 48-hour, €100, digital-only formation... But it's still complicated to scale across the bloc. Here are 5 recommendations to improve the framework 🧵 progresschamber.org/resources/subm…

Check out the proposal and full list of responses here: ec.europa.eu/info/law/bette…

5️⃣ Monitor and communicate progress The proposal includes a 5-year reporting cycle (attached). That's too slow. Publish annual reports with KPIs, case studies, cost comparisons, and recommendations. Use it to advertise the initiative and drive uptake across Europe 📊

🎉 We've hit 400 followers! 🎉 Come celebrate with us tomorrow at our Summer Drinks 🍻🥂 What better way to survive the Brussels heatwave? You can sign up here 👉 forms.gle/wFtsBbwFZJza1C…

Ahh, yes, bastion of democracy - welcome to the movement!

Our new report finds that automated ridehailing services could add €17.7 billion to EU GDP and support more than 473,000 jobs. The EU could also avoid 595 million kg of emissions annually. It’s time for Europe to embrace AVs.

To reduce European dependence on American technology firms, the European Parliament has replaced Google with a French search engine, Qwant. Qwant generates its search results by querying the Microsoft Bing API.