Views: 8Authorities in Azerbaijan – the country hosts this year’s global climate summit COP29 – suggest that continued fossil fuel extraction might be compatible with the global climate agreement. With four months to go until COP29 kicks off in Baku, the Azerbaijani presidency announced a flurry of initiatives, non-binding pledges and partnerships to be signed […]
Category: EU in global governance
Priorities in Europe and NATO: climate change and AI strategy
Views: 14Both the EU and NATO are exploring policies in managing modern challenges. Among most vital and new are the climate mitigation efforts and digital transition. In the EU these items have been already developing for some years, in NATO they are generally started two-three years ago. Somehow, there are certain similarities in approaches and […]
European beautiful future: facing complex global challenges
Views: 11The European Pact for the Future suggested by the European Environmental Bureau, EEB is a recent initiative aimed at driving fundamental changes in the existing political-economy’s patterns. The general Pact’s goal is “a green and social deal for a one-planet economy”, as postulated in the EEB’s leaflet. This September, world leaders will convene at […]
Financing the EU priorities and integration through the external bonds
Views: 14According to the EU law, the European Commission is empowered to borrow from the international capital markets on behalf of the 27 member states. The EU has a well-established name in the global securities markets with a positive track record of bond issuances over the past 40 years. All issuances executed by the Commission […]
Critical raw material supply chains in Europe
Views: 22The entry into force of the European Critical Raw Materials Act, CRM it is vital step in the EU-wide efforts aimed at ensuring diverse, secure and sustainable supply of critical raw materials for the member states’ industrial development. For example, secured access to critical raw materials is essential for such strategic sectors as clean […]
Carbon removal market in modern political economy: global and European approaches
Views: 15The process of mitigating negative climate-effective measures in national development includes several general (involving altering political economy’s facets, etc.) and specific means (like adaptive measures concerning increasing healthy environment and reduction of emissions, etc.). The article deals with some aspects of these pressing issues.
EU’s external trade: cooperation agreement with New Zealand
Views: 48The EU-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement is aimed at removing customs duties and bureaucracy that European firms face when dealing with export-import relations between the EU member states and New Zealand. External trade is an exclusive European Commission’s competence.
EU-wide priorities at the end of the Commission’s term…
Views: 23The Commission President underlined several priorities that have been valid at the end of the Commission’s College five years’ term: public investments in strategic sectors (with the stress on commodities), reducing the cost of energy, addressing the labor and skills shortage, and facilitating external trade.
“Energizing” issues in modern political economy: cross-continental perspectives
Views: 47Recent conference organized by the Green Institute titled “Energizing Futures: Bridging Traditional Practices with Modern Innovations” was devoted to numerous issues vital both for African and European continents. As to the former, the analysis of traditional and modern practices in energy usage was somehow dominating; for the latter, these were the issues of progressive […]
Consolidating sustainable and long-term growth in Europe
Views: 24Four main areas of actions by the EU institutions and the member states have been underlined at the recent EU summit: a) efficient use of available financial resources, b) effective and affordable energy facilities for households and businesses, c) addressing the lack of skills that affects European socio-economic development, and d) competitive external trade […]