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Central to the goals of competitiveness and sustainable development is the issue of energy. Is there enough? Where will it come from? What will it costs? Is its production and use environmentally sustainable? Many of these questions are now discussed under the general topic commonly referred to...
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This paper addresses a set of conflicting national objectives, that between economic competitiveness and environmental quality. In lower-income economies, the perceived benefits of improved environmental quality may be valued less than in richer economies while the perceived opportunity costs of...
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The issue as to what degree there is a trade-off between economic growth and environmental quality was one of the topics discussed at the recent “Environment for Europe” Ministerial Conference held in Belgrade in mid-October 2007. This paper provides an overall assessment of that conference...
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This paper focuses on EU chemical regulations, RoHS and REACH, and shows these EU regulations have driven Asian … countries to introduce regulations that are similar yet modified versions to the EU regulations. Asia as the world manufacturing …
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median income. However, for grasping trends in social cohesion in the European Union (EU), and identifying options and … pitfalls for social policy initiatives at the EU level, EU-wide income differences are at least as important as national income … differences. Therefore, in this paper we document recent trends in national and EU-wide income poverty dynamics. We analyse to …
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Migration from Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries has only become a large and important phenomenon over the last twenty years At its heart, labour migration reflects entrepreneurial decisions by individuals and families looking to improve their lives while facing complex challenges and...
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the EU among themselves. In the long term this Problem stylized to a dramatic debt crisis for one Part of the EU member … development orientation of the Far East. The dominant Forces into the EU tries to handle with this external competition problem … the EU instances, is not transferred to the benefit of democratically elected bodies like the European Parliament, but to …
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This article illustrates an integrated approach to achieve a competitive and sustainable European tourism policy that recognise the two directions in which it can exert an influence: minimising the negative impacts of tourism on society/environment and maximising tourism's positive and creative...
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The predominant spatial conception of the EU contributes to an evident emergence of a sharpened territorial building of … the EU as a ‘non-Westphalian new empire’ (according to the ‘neo-medieval paradigm’) became at least unrealistic …
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15 European Union (EU) Member States on 30 September 2002. The Directive contains provisions on maximum yields, warning …
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