The Group is organised to explore and develop policy and legal solutions for legal solutions regarding the access to natural resources, the effects of international trade on the sustainability of natural resources, the environmental impact of resource trade and the price of volatile resources, considering the challenges faced by EU Member States, BRICs, developing countries (especially Lusophone) and the US.

Wealth and income inequality in the world, the global challenges posed by the climate crisis, Big Tech regulation and its economic, social and cultural implications and the post-pandemic recovery create challenges to the global economic order structured according to a free-market logic and low government intervention as the best way to achieve economic growth.

This Group aims at analysing the two different crises (the sovereign-debt and pandemic crises) that hit the E(M)U in the last decades, and to discuss the effectiveness and impact of policy responses designed to address them.