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Form Without Substance: The European Commission’s Double Standard

June 29, 2018

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

Better regulation, blogactiv, Business & Climate Change, Climate & Environment, Development Policy

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Poverty and inequality major ingredients in our food

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

Agriculture & Food, blogactiv, food, Global Europe

Climate Change and the 2°C target – New report and video on Green Finance

May 24, 2018

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

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

Global Europe

Walk the talk: Public transport a key enabler for healthy cities

April 9, 2018

            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

  Posted by International Association of Public Transport

blogactiv, Climate & Environment, Sustainable Dev., Transport

Triggering a critical mass of sustainable investment: How can Europe do it?

February 12, 2018

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

blogactiv, Business & Climate Change, Climate & Environment, development, Development Policy, EU Priorities 2020, Financial Services, Future EU, Global Europe, Science & Research, Sustainable Dev.

International law and secondary legislation: uncharted territory…until now

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

blogactiv, lobbying

New German Government’s Climate & Energy Policy

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

blogactiv, Climate & Environment, Development Policy, Energy, EU Priorities 2020, EurActiv.com

Rebalancing EU trade policy in the public interest

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

Better regulation, blogactiv, Business & Climate Change, Climate & Environment, Development Policy, Economy & Euro, Global Europe, Health & Consumers, Trade & Industry, transatlantic affairs, TTIP

Don’t throw the Chaebol baby out with the corrupt bath water

November 22, 2017

Guest post by Gabriel A. Giménez Roche, assistant professor of economics at NEOMA Business School, and associate researcher at the Institut Économique Molinari   At a time when the nuclear menace of North Korea becomes increasingly serious, South Korea is also threatened from within by a series of high impact financial scandals. To face it,… » read more

  Posted by The Guest Blog

blogactiv, Competition, Innovation & Enterprise, Innovation and Growth, Trade & Society
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