Der erste Policy Coherence for Development (PCD) Fortschrittsbericht der EU-Kommission vom September 2007 hat deutlich gezeigt, dass sowohl die EU-Kommission als auch die EU-Mitgliedsländer - mit wenigen Ausnahmen - bei der konkreten Umsetzung von PCD am Anfang stehen. Trotz der...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the economic aspects of EU policy towards its Eastern neighbors in the former Soviet Union. For a long period of time, this region was considered as less important for the EU, as compared to Central and Eastern Europe, which was the subject of a...

The clock is ticking and time is running short for us to have a realistic chance to get climate change under control and prevent it becoming irreversible and selfsustaining. Phasing out coal is widely seen as a 'low hanging fruit' of climate policy commitments in the move towards a net zero...