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August 21, 2018
An example of failing global affairs: when the new Italian government made it clear that it would not be “Europe’s refugee camp” and refused to bring in ships with immigrants, the implication was immediately evident in its neighbor, Spain, where 22,000 immigrants have arrived since the beginning of the year. The Spanish government does not… » read more
Posted by Uniting Europe
Guest post by Matthew Spiegl, lawyer and the legal counsel for the Free Morgan Foundation (Netherlands) and Dr. Ingrid N. Visser, whale biologist and the co-founder of the Free Morgan Foundation. Words matter; the arrangement of words, the grammatical structure of sentences, the syntactical separation of subject and the disjunction of dissimilar provisions by paragraphs,… » read more
Posted by The Guest Blog
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Better regulation, blogactiv, Business & Climate Change, Climate & Environment, Development Policy |
June 25, 2018
New report shows why the planned EU ban on unfair trading practices is urgently needed Millions of women and men who produce our food are trapped in poverty and face brutal working conditions, despite billion-dollar profits in the food industry, reveals a new report published by Oxfam today. The report, ‘Ripe for Change’, also assesses… » read more
Posted by Oxfam's EU Advocacy office in Brussels
The UN expects the world temperature to rise of about 2.7°C, well above the target maximum of 1.5°C to 2°C agreed upon in Paris. Even if countries manage to match this ambition with results, people in many parts of the globe still face a future of more frequent flooding, drought and storms. Urban population growth… » read more
Posted by Kaj Embren
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blogactiv, Climate & Environment, Development Policy, EU Priorities 2020, EurActiv.com, Leadership and sustainability, Sustainable Dev. |
Collaboration for impact
May 23, 2018
Guest blog post by Stefan Crets, Executive Director, CSR Europe and Louise Scott, Director, PwC Are European associations and industry sectors working with their members to raise sustainability impact? Do they engage in collaborative projects with other sectors to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals? In partnership with PwC, CSR Europe releases a new White Paper… » read more
May 17, 2018
Claire Fountaine, Leslie Widmann and Isabelle Autissier are some of the examples that represent the feminine role on the sea work. She for Sea is a project that shows how women can be at the wheel of the maritime sector and how this creates a better, more inclusive and representative blue economy. By means of… » read more
Posted by Atlantic Arc Cities
Για την αποτελεσματική καταπολέμηση της διαφθοράς δεν επαρκούν μόνον προληπτικοί και κατασταλτικοί μηχανισμοί, ή ενίσχυση αυτών, αλλά χρειάζεται και μία συνολικότερη οπτική για τον τρόπο με τον οποίο το φαινόμενο αυτό διαφθείρει πλέον και την ίδια την ιδεολογική βάση του δημοκρατικού πολιτεύματος.
Posted by EU and Greece
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blogactiv, EurActiv.com, Euro & Finance, Social Europe & Jobs, Sustainable Dev. |
April 16, 2018
Ανάλυση αποκλειστικών εγγράφων για το Ελληνικό γιαούρτι, συμπεριλαμβανομένου και του μπλοκαζ σχεδίου νομοθετήματος της Τσεχίας από την Ευρωπαϊκή Επιτροπή, των απαντήσεων των Τσεχικών αρχών, και των επιστολών που ανταλλάχθηκαν μεταξύ της Ελλάδας και της Επιτροπής.
Posted by EU and Greece
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Agriculture & Food, blogactiv, EurActiv.com, Social Europe & Jobs, Sustainable Dev. |
Dionisio González is the Advocacy & Outreach Director at UITP, the International Association of Public Transport. UITP is a passionate champion of sustainable urban mobility and it is the only worldwide network to bring together all public transport stakeholders and all sustainable transport modes. Cities around the world are… » read more
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blogactiv, Climate & Environment, Sustainable Dev., Transport |
February 13, 2018
Naive questions about a file where every actor seems to be acting in reverse Being a recognised lobbyist, professor at the College of Europe, author and blogger, hardly a day goes by without a journalist or student asking me to contribute to an article or thesis. I have always responded positively – except for tobacco.… » read more
Posted by Daniel Gueguen
Kirsten Dunlop is Chief executive of Climate-KIC, Europe’s largest public-private innovation partnership focused on climate change. Kirsten leads Climate-KIC’s mission to decarbonise and transform land, cities and manufacturing sectors through strategic innovation and systemic change. The European Commission’s HLEG Working Group on Sustainable Finance released its long-awaited final report on 31 January. More than two… » read more
Posted by The Guest Blog
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blogactiv, Business & Climate Change, Climate & Environment, development, Development Policy, EU Priorities 2020, Financial Services, Future EU, Global Europe, Science & Research, Sustainable Dev. |
A delegated act tabled under EU tobacco legislation has sparked off an intriguing debate about the relationship between international treaties and EU secondary legislation. Is the European Commission respecting the WHO Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products? In past years the Newsletter has spilt copious amounts of ink writing about the relationship between… » read more
Posted by Daniel Gueguen
February 6, 2018
After 4 months of bickering about coalitions and policy measures, Germany’s 2 largest parties – Angela Merkel’s conservative party CDU/CSU and the Social Democrats (SPD) – have formed a grand coalition: the so-called GroKo. German politics plays a mayor role in the climate goals of the whole EU: which parties end up in the government… » read more
Posted by Arthur Wyns - environmental journalist
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blogactiv, Climate & Environment, Development Policy, Energy, EU Priorities 2020, EurActiv.com |
January 10, 2018
Guest post by Dr. Laurens Ankersmit, ClientEarth trade lawyer On the website promoting the EU-Canada trade deal (CETA), the Canadian government proudly lists the ‘opportunities and benefits of CETA for Canada’s oil and gas exporters’. However, provisions on combatting climate change are completely absent from this ‘progressive’ agreement. It was one of the main… » read more
Posted by The Guest Blog
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Better regulation, blogactiv, Business & Climate Change, Climate & Environment, Development Policy, Economy & Euro, Global Europe, Health & Consumers, Trade & Industry, transatlantic affairs, TTIP |
Mohamed Mezghani is the Secretary General-Elect of UITP, the International Association of Public Transport. Based in Brussels, UITP is a passionate champion of sustainable urban mobility and it is the only worldwide network to bring together all public transport stakeholders and all sustainable transport modes. Yesterday marked the UN’s… » read more
