In this video from the Mediterranean Strategy Group in Lisbon, Tomás Duplá del Moral, former director for the Americas at the European External Action Service, explains which sectors of Spain’s economy will fuel growth and stimulate employment.

Amy Studdart, program officer in GMF’s Brussels office, discusses the future of India’s economy with Sachin Pilot, India’s Minister for Corporate Affairs, at the India Trilateral Forum.

Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds report is the fifth installment in the National Intelligence Council's series aimed at providing a framework for thinking about the future. The report predicts the four mega trends that we might see in coming years.These are individual involvement, diffusion of power, demographic patterns, and growing food, water, and energy nexus.

The United States is well on its way to becoming largely self-sufficient in oil and gas and could overtake Saudi Arabia as the world's biggest supplier of hydrocarbons by 2020. Even if U.S. energy independence is still some time away, this is nonetheless a stunning turnaround from decades of U.S. dependence on imported energy sources and all the attendant geopolitical concerns. The change has been driven in part by innovative methods of exploration and extraction of fossil fuels such as shale gas from hydraulic fracturing. In a development entirely unforeseen five years ago, this has caused natural gas supplies in the United States to soar and prices to drop. Europe, in contrast, must pay four to five times more for its natural gas and has become one of the biggest importers of U.S. coal, which is experiencing a sharp decline in its share of U.S. electricity generation as power is increasingly supplied by natural gas. This increasing availability of cheap electricity is helping to bring new vigor to the U.S. economy and there are signs of new manufacturing life in old industrial regions as energy-intensive industries like petrochemicals are finding the United States a more competitive place to do business.

Five years after the start of the financial crisis, discussions on both sides of the Atlantic have shifted toward broader questions over the role of government in the economy and the limits of political integration.