Tag archive for ‘sustainable development’
Reforming the EU Budget to Promote Sustainable Growth
Reforming the EU budget offers one way to promote sustainable development in Europe. Even given the current limited size of this budget, substantial resources could be channelled into a broad carbon mitigation and adaptation programme with a European value added, either by fully exploiting the ‘own resources’ ceiling, or by shifting resources from other policy [...]
Restorative Business – An alternative Business Model to accelerate Sustainable Development
On launching the 2020 new economic vision for Europe, the President of the European Commission, Manuel Barroso, opened with these words:
‘The crisis is a wake-up call, the moment where we recognise that “business as usual” would consign us to a gradual decline, to the second rank of the new global order. This is Europe’s moment [...]
New Priorities for the EU Institutions
The priorities must be formulated, as always, in a manner that takes into account both form and content. I shall accordingly deal with both aspects, while placing greater emphasis on the latter. A first priority will be to ensure that the new institutional balance resulting from the Lisbon Treaty can be made to work. The [...]
