Views: 18There are already serious reservations concerning the EU’s net-zero growth, as well as about “indefinite delay” of corporate sustainability rules and a “far-reaching simplification”. These and other issues were mentioned recently by Von der Leyen, Commission President in Davos. However, some EU officials in headline commitments note that in the context of the Green […]
Category: Sustainability
covering main UN SDGs implementation in the EU states, European “green deal”, as well as circular economy’s aspects and “green growth” in the national development
Developmental transition: global-national priorities through ESG and AI approaches
Views: 19Modern national growth concepts tend to include the ESG approaches, which are composed of environmental, social and governance components. Within this triangle, the governance often becomes a priority, particularly in the business sectors, in digital transition and data management. For the whole process to be successful, “managing” existing volumes and complexities of information becomes […]
European security strategy: member states’ outbound investments to strengthen economy
Views: 17The European Union is one of the world’s leaders in both providing and attracting investments; however, modern changes in geopolitics require a profound understanding of all the potential risks involved. Hence, the EU is assessing the region’s outbound investment in key technology areas – semiconductors, AI and quantum technologies – in order to identify […]
Financing EU programs: borrowing internationally
Views: 16According to the EU Treaties, the European Commission, on behalf of the member states, is able to borrow from the international capital markets to finance selected EU policy programs. The EU-bond issues facility has a well-established name in debt securities markets, with a track record of bond issuances during last 40 years. Present EU […]
European net-zero industrial strategy
Views: 17The EU net-zero industry’s legislation is aimed at making European continent the focal point of world-wide clean technologies manufacturing and green jobs; it is identifying goals for net-zero industrial capacity and provide a regulatory framework suited for its quick deployment. However, the process is more complicated and includes several other aspects of the EU’s […]
EU “industrial deal” and chemical sector’s involvement
Views: 33The European “clean industrial deal” is expected to become one of the most defining legislative efforts of the new Commission College, even that the initial draft and its actual contents remain quite vague. The new law will “ramp up investments in clean technologies and energy-intensive sectors” to keep Europe’s economy looming “without losing sight […]
European CAP: recent comprehensive ago-policy analysis
Views: 38Eurobarometer publishes regularly surveys on the state-of-art of EU-wide agriculture: i.e. recent eighth edition was conducted last summer among over 26 thousand respondents from different social and demographic groups. Present survey provides a comprehensive overview of Europeans’ attitudes towards agriculture and the Common Agricultural Policy, which takes about one-third of EU budget.
“Positive sustainability” in growth: European governance strategies
Views: 23The European approach in growth is, generally, a result and an outcome of the EU-wide adopted political economy pattern based on the concept of “social market economy” in which the regulatory and governance strategies have been dominating for decades. The EU has conducted recently several “hybrid efforts” on strengthening the EU’s leadership in sustainability, […]
European Sustainable Development Report-2024: assessment and outcomes
Views: 45Regularly published European Sustainable Development Reports represent a regional assessment of countries’ progress towards achieving the UN-2030 Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs. The new report complements to the official SDG-indicators and the voluntary national reviews. As in previous years, present report is based on public consultations (this time during last December) and gathers internationally comparable […]
World Economic Forum-2025: collaboration in a digital age
Views: 131World Economic Forum Annual Meeting at the end of January 2025 is devoted to some of the most pressing contemporary issues: from trust in public institutions and transforming global economy to modern resilient societies and innovative global partnerships to “safeguarding the planet” and corporate transformations in the digital, as WEF called it, the “intelligent […]