Tag Archives: European Commission (EC)
Around Europe 340 – March 2012
Israel’s Supreme Court Adapts International Law in West Bank Quarrying ruling; A View of the EU Budget through Green-Tinted Spectacles; Continued Cognitive Dissonance in EU Energy Effort; Democracy under stress: The global crisis and beyond. Click here to download (PDF – 1.3 MB) Deutsche Ausgabe – März 2012 Israels Oberster … More…
Consultation response: maritime transport emissions in GHG reduction commitment
Shipping affects European waters. In order to keep the global temperature change below two degrees, all aspects of our carbon emissions must be considered. Therefore it is essential that the maritime sector should contribute to European emission reduction efforts. The efforts will not give a comprehensive view if maritime emissions … More…
Consultation response: more Sustainable Consumption and Production
While we welcome the Commission’s flagship initiative entitled A resource-efficient Europe, and more sustainable consumption and production policy development, we still consider the effort to be too vague. We also do not understand why the resource efficiency strategy has been included in the Europe 2020 Strategy. We consider the former … More…
Briefing paper: EU security research and peacebuilding – a case of institutional and political disconnect
QCEA has done work on the European Security Research Programme for several years; this was focused initially on making the programme better known in order to demonstrate the involvement of the defence industry in the programme. This briefing paper brings this strand of our work together with research we have … More…
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Tagged Democratic governance, European Commission (EC), European Union (EU), Militarisation, Peace
Consultation response: reinforcing the existing EURATOM nuclear safety legislative framework
QCEA believes that the Euratom Treaty is the wrong platform to deal with nuclear safety of the EU Member States – it should be regulated by the EU Treaties. This is principally because the Euratom Treaty was established in order to promote the use of nuclear energy (Euratom art. 1), … More…
Consultation response: social protection in EU development cooperation
Social protection is an important issue, for developed economies as much as for developing ones. At a time when social protection in developed economies (including those of the EU) are coming under increasing pressure, it is important that the EU accepts the importance of social protection as part of poverty … More…
Briefing paper: the green agenda in the EU budget
This briefing paper continues the work done by QCEA on the EU Multiannual Financial Framework 2014-2020. The Paper examines the latest proposals from the European Commission for the next EU budget and the potential effects of this on climate change, environmental and resource sustainability, biodiversity and other issues on the … More…
Consultation response – vehicular CO2 emissions
Cars are responsible for 14% of the EU’s total CO2 emissions, and they are the single largest source of transport emissions, representing around half of the total. Transport is also critical in the debate on Europe’s energy dependence, as it is responsible for about two-thirds of our oil use. Thus, … More…
Briefing paper: EU security research and peacebuilding
The Security Research theme of the 7th Framework Programme is funded at a level of 1.4 billion euros out of a total research budget of 50.5 billion euros. Horizon 2020 is set to be much bigger; the figure proposed by the European Commission is 80 billion euros. Even if the … More…
Around Europe 333 – June 2011
Green Week 2011: Ambition is an Imperative; The Rafah Mission Must Close; Anything Other Than Energy Demand Reduction is a Short-Term Solution
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Deutsche Ausgabe – Juni 2011
Die Rafah-Mission muss geschlossen werden
