Views: 39Contemporary global challenges greatly affect all EU-wide development, in particular the European regional and cohesion policies: both are having solid sustainability’s implications and therefore are presently heavily supported from the European financial sources and funds. Progress in reaching SDGs in the EU and OECD countries is reflected below.
Category: Political-economy
including the EU and the member states political economy’s analytical monitoring, as well as researching inherent connections between the political decision-making and their economic implementation
Sustainable development goals in Europe: new progress assessment
Views: 69Implementing sustainability goes hand-in-hand with transformations in the EU’s economic model: the member states have to take necessary measures in boosting resilience and recovery. In this liaison, the national and the EU-wide efforts, coped with the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), are becoming both the “compass and measure of success” in perspective socio-economic growth, […]
Diversification of supply: resolving European energy crisis
Views: 73Newly created the EU Energy Platform in the beginning of April 2022, is aimed at coordinating measures in securing energy supplies for the EU states, incl. through voluntary common purchase of pipeline gas, LNG and hydrogen. Thus, new platform’s “task force” has an objective of reducing EU’s dependence on Russian fossil fuels by enabling […]
Education for sustainable growth with the common global roadmap for 2030
Views: 50During last six years UNESCO has been working on implementing sustainability into states’ sustainable policies and higher education (HE). Finally, in May 2022 the global educational community adopted a general roadmap for HE and a plan to “reinvent education for a sustainable future”. Although it is not an action plan agreed by governments, it […]
European 2022-Spring economic forecast: negative expectations
Views: 42The EU economy is going presently through a challenging period due to effects of the 4th Industrial Revolution, climate change measures, post-pandemic recovery and Russia-Ukraine military conflict. Spring-22 regional forecast shows that most negative for economy, businesses and households are such factors as the surge in energy prices, record high inflation and disruption of […]
Re-power the EU: vital perspectives in energy security
Views: 53The European “REPowerEU Plan” is aimed at rapid reduction of EU-27 dependence on Russian fossil fuels by fast-forwarding the clean energy transition and adapting member states industrial and manufacturing sectors, as well as infrastructure to different energy sources and suppliers. The plan is based on additional investments of €210 billion during coming five years […]
European energy: complex issues and contemporary solutions
Views: 45Energy issues are the most important items in national political economy. With enormous pressure and challenges, global and European energy problems require new and resolute approaches on energy security, pollution reduction, sustainable growth and climate mitigation. Discussions on achieving fair green and digital transition, energy efficiency and reducing fossil fuels dependency are in agendas […]
New European growth model: facing modern challenges and risks
Views: 51In March 2022, the European Commission introduced a new concept of the EU and the member states development model with shifts in national economies towards unprecedented in history transformations facing present major global/regional challenges and risks. New growth model includes “twin transition” and inclusive social patterns needed in new priorities, investments and reforms in […]
Social agenda in European integration and development
Views: 45In the EU’s development triangle, in the so-called “social market economy”, most vital is its social facet, which distinguishes “European capitalism” from some traditional western-liberal connotations. At the end of 2021, the European Commission adopted a new action plan on the social economy with concrete measures to “mobilise full potential of the social economy”.
European political community and confederation: new lines of integration
Views: 31Most EU leaders for long have been talking about “political unity”, although behind closed doors, not being involved in new legal arrangement like Treaty’s amendment; the “French plan” would include both members and non-members of the EU. The EU heads of state and government are divided about the idea: i.e. from being apprehensive to […]