Views: 20The Commission adopted a couple of legislative drafts to assist the member states’ economies and businesses towards more circular and carbon neutral development. The EU has already adopted the “green deal”, which is aimed at ensuring that all packaging in the EU market is reusable or recyclable in an economically viable manner by 2030. […]
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Price caps’ initiatives: resolving critical global energy and trade issues
Views: 9Two recent actions by the G-7 and the EU-27, i.e. on price cap and on “corrective mechanisms” from the EU, are regarded –at least in the political sense – good enough to remedy present critical energy situation. Aimed to address rising inflation and keep energy costs stable at a time when high fuel costs, […]
New challenges for business: sustainability and environmental quality
Views: 313European Environmental Bureau sends a warning signal: “no more business as usual”. Thus, to produce goods and services the European companies have to respect human health, sustainability, environmental quality and bio-diversity. It is, basically, about introducing new rules in entrepreneurship; however, some stumbling blocks are still tarnishing present progressive moves including corporate governance resistance […]
European energy policy: political and economic implications
Views: 19At the end of November 2022, the EU-27 member states reached some vital politico-economic decisions on critical energy-related issues. These decisions are not only important for resolving EU-wide current energy crisis; now the states must move forward to implement as swiftly as possible tough decisions, which include also some “market correction mechanisms”. Soon the […]
Sustainability: altering priorities in modern politics and economics
Views: 21At the 10th annual international conference on sustainable development (September 19-20, 2022), the EII presented a paper that had been awarded the “best paper at the conference” among over 160 presented. As soon as the EII’s work attracted so much attention, we decided to publish it for our readers.
COP-27: perspectives for climate change’s mitigation
Views: 31Perspective solutions concerning climate change were discussed at a yearly summit of world leaders in Egypt this November. Although skepticism towards any new solutions generally dominated the discussions, some decisions are well worth mentioning, e.g. creating a special fund for “loss and damages” for states suffering most. However, strange enough, global leaders still are […]
EU-wide education area for 2025: ongoing initiatives and trends
Views: 41The Commission approved a report on progress towards the achievement of the European Education Area by 2025; the report takes analyses the ongoing initiatives and trends on progress to attain EU-level targets in education and training. The progress report is assisted by the Education & Training Monitor with the EU-wide analysis of education and […]
Perspectives for farmed seafood in seas around Europe
Views: 22Farmed seafood has been for long identified as a low-carbon source of food and feed; additionally, algae have a growing number of potential commercial uses in such sectors as pharmaceuticals and plant bio-stimulants, bio-packaging, cosmetics and biofuels. With the recent EU’s “algae initiative”, the Commission wants to unlock EU algae sector potentials by supporting […]
European-wide economic governance: macro-fiscal surveillance in the states growth
Views: 21Presently, the European Commission seeks to create a more transparent, simpler and integrated architecture for macro-fiscal and structural policy’s surveillance in the states to better deliver on the objectives of ensuring debt sustainability and promoting perspective growth.
Navigating growth and employment: EU’s skills agenda for 2023
Views: 17The idea of making 2023 the European Year of Skills stems from the intention to strengthen the member states’ competitiveness in the world, with a better focusing on investments, supporting the SMEs and matching employment needs with people’s aspirations and talents. Having relevant skills empowers governance sectors successfully navigate changes in the job market […]