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EC Reflects on Strategies to Achieve SDGs
February 06, 2019
The European Commission (EC) has published a “reflection paper” setting out options for achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Europe by 2030, including one scenario in which the EC develops an “overarching” SDGs strategy guiding EU institutions and the member states.
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EU Bank Allocates Billions to Global “Climate Action”
February 06, 2019
In a recent press release, the European Investment Bank touts its successful navigation of a “politically difficult environment” in 2018, involving the increased popularity of “parochial nationalism,” to deliver hundreds of billions in global investments, with nearly 30 percent of its financing aimed at combating climate change.
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EU Struggles to Agree Common Foreign Policy
February 05, 2019
An article in Politico highlights how the difficulty for EU member states to agree a common position on foreign policy issues, including on the situation in Venezuela and the disintegration of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, may nudge EU leaders toward deciding foreign policy positions on a non-unanimous basis.
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EU Plans Emergency Aid for Farmers in Case of No-Deal Brexit
February 05, 2019
Showing the ramp-up in EU plans to accommodate a no-deal Brexit, Reuters reports that the European Commission (EC) has agreed to pay out million of euros in emergency aid to Irish farmers in case the UK leaves the bloc without a deal to compensate them for a potentially sharp reduction in prices.
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UK Official Floats Potential Delay in Brexit
February 05, 2019
The BBC reports that UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has indicated the UK and the EU may need to agree to a delay in Brexit to accommodate the need to pass the appropriate legislation for Britain to withdraw from the supranational organization.
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