Author: High Representative Josep Borrell

There is a considerable debate on the ‘how’ to build EU foreign policy and on ‘who’ frames it. The most important thing is how to avoid paralysis, because in most cases, Member States are very much divided. This inevitably leads us to the debate on how to make decisions. Should the decisions be taken at unanimity or according to the rule of qualified majority?

Au premier semestre 2022, la France inaugurera un nouveau trio composé de la République tchèque (juillet-décembre 2022) et de la Suède (janvier-juin 2023). Comme pour le Portugal, la présidence française reposera sur l’agenda stratégique européen 2019-2024. Ce programme, qui oriente les travaux des institutions européennes pendant cinq ans, repose sur quatre grandes orientations :     

   -protéger les citoyens et les libertés

   -mettre en place une base économique solide et dynamique

   -construire une Europe neutre pour le climat, verte, équitable et sociale

Authors: Fabbrini, S., J.E. Fossum, M. Gora and G. Wolff (2021) ‘The Conference on the Future of Europe: vehicle for reform versus forum for reflection? Bruegel Blog, xx June.

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The Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) and Social Democrats (SPD) consider the EU to be a central part of Germany’s future. Although both parties have made a strong pledge to the EU, they currently  lack clear ideas for future EU integration.

Conversely, the Greens and the FDP both have a strongly pro-integration, federalist vision for the EU’s future. The Greens want to use the Conference on the Future of Europe as a starting point on a path to a Federal European Republic, and the FDP envisions a decentralised federal European state as the final destination of EU integration.

Editors of 228 leading medical, nursing and public-health journals from around the world called for urgent action on climate change, in a joint editorial. They warn that current efforts aren’t enough to address health problems resulting from rising global temperatures caused by emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. “Health is already being harmed by global temperature increases and the destruction of the natural world,” the journals’ editors say in the editorial.

Austria

• Umweltdachverband
• Nationalpark Hohe Tauern
• Bundesministerium für Klimaschutz, Umwelt, Energie, Mobilität, Innovation und Technologie

Belgium

The IUCN European Regional Office represents 344 Members (2019), to include 32 Governments, 312 CSOs, Zoos, Academic Institutions, Foundations, Research Institutes and Museums. IUCN provides regional and global services to the Union, by providing vital linkages to EU institutions and other stakeholders in Brussels. Its  primary role is to connect and engage in policy dialogues with European institutions, governments, civil society, NGOs, science and the business communities to improve conservation policy and action.

Source: OECD Report