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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
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
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blogactiv, Competition, Innovation & Enterprise, Innovation and Growth, Trade & Society |
November 14, 2017
Posted by Arthur Wyns - environmental journalist
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blogactiv, Climate & Environment, Development Policy, Energy, EU Priorities 2020, EurActiv.com, Global Europe, Science & Policymaking, Sustainable Dev. |
November 13, 2017
By Climate Tracker Originally Published on the Climate Tracker Website
Posted by Arthur Wyns - environmental journalist
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blogactiv, Climate & Environment, Development Policy, Energy, EU Priorities 2020, Global Europe, Science & Policymaking, Sustainable Dev. |
November 6, 2017
Last year, just as I was shaping a vision of how a “Manufacturing Renaissance” could allow creating 100 million jobs for less skilled westerners, I took a course on AI (Artificial Intelligence) which suggests that 100 to 200 million more low technology jobs in service such as banking and trading were going to disappear soon… » read more
Posted by TAXI: Europa
November 2, 2017
The Conference of Atlantic Arc Cities (CAAC) has been advocating the potential of cities and territorial cohesion since 2000. The members of the network have also implemented this philosophy through projects; in particular through European programmes such as URBACT. Launched in 2002, URBACT aims at promoting the sustainable and integrated development of cities by offering… » read more
Posted by Atlantic Cities
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blogactiv, Development Policy, EU Priorities 2020, Regional Policy, Sustainable Dev., Urban Development |
Throughout the world we live in unequal societies with seemingly ever-growing gap between the rich and the poor, which has lead to sizable popular resentment and disenchantment with mainstream politics. It could be argued that these factors contributed significantly to Brexit and President Trump, while also fueling populist wave across the developed world. The pressing… » read more
Posted by Dražen Šimić
October 31, 2017
OPEN LETTER 25 October 2017 Karmenu Vella, Commissioner Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries European Commission 1049 Brussels Dear Commissioner Vella: We write regarding one of the world’s most vulnerable and valuable shark species – the shortfin mako, with hopes of enlisting your help to avert North Atlantic population collapse. As head of the EU’s environment… » read more
Posted by The Guest Blog
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Better regulation, blogactiv, Business & Climate Change, Climate & Environment, Fishery, Food & Consumers |
By Marc Herman The European Union is currently reviewing policies crucial for Europe’s response to the two most pressing challenges of our time: ending hunger and fighting climate change. The European Parliament and member states are about to decide on new rules for the EU’s renewable energy policy until 2030. It is their chance to… » read more
Posted by Oxfam's EU Advocacy office in Brussels
The title of the book “Cool Cities”, written by Benjamin Barber, plays with the different dimensions of climate change that can be tackled at local level and even the mood for doing it. It is thus, an integrated metaphor of the book itself. As a Political Science authority, Barber explains, in the first section of… » read more
Posted by Atlantic Cities
By Mostafa Darwish & Arthur Wyns Climate Action is necessary on all levels, from changing personal behaviour to promoting sustainable businesses & entrepreneurship. Climate-KIC – or the Knowledge and Innovation Community – does just that: as Europe’s largest public-private innovation network, it empowers young people to come up with new business ideas to challenge and… » read more
Posted by Arthur Wyns - environmental journalist
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blogactiv, Climate & Environment, Energy, EurActiv.com, Innovation & Enterprise, Sustainable Dev. |
October 11, 2017
High medicine prices is a key public health challenge in Europe and Trade policy – an exclusive EU competence can improve or exacerbate the situation. Free Trade and Investment agreements can make easier or harder for European governments to change existing policies to curb the costs of pharmaceuticals. Following a civil society dialogue meeting with… » read more
Posted by Zoltán Massay-Kosubek
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blogactiv, Civil Society (NGOs), Global Europe, Health & Consumers, medicines, Public Health, Sustainable Dev. |
