Modeling Corners, Kinks, and Jumps in Crop Acreage Choices: Impacts of the EU Support to Protein Crops

After joining EU Lithuania started to receive the support for modernization of agricultural production processes, to maintain farmers' income, upgrade rural infrastructure, improve people's quality of life. Farmers, the local authorities, as well as rural communities had to absorb EU support administration procedures, what formed a new culture of communication. That is why it is important to analyze what was the EU support impact on rural residents, especially their social capital, which is one of the sources to improve life quality and well-being. The purpose of this article is to assess the impact of EU support on rural residents’ social capital. To achieve the set goal Lithuanian rural wards’ elders were selected as representatives of the local authorities. Survey results showed that the rural communities residents became more motivated, self-reliant, the number of cultural and other events increased, the residents began to build their leisure. And pay more attention and resources for the maintenance of living environment and rural landscape.

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EU STRUCTURAL SUPPORT AND ITS IMPACT ON LITHUANIA'S PROGRESS

Journal of Business Economics and Management ◽

10.3846/16111699.2007.9636167 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

pp. 177-187 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Rima Tamošiūnienė ◽

Skirmantas Šidlauskas ◽

Ingrida Trumpaitė

Keyword(s):

Labour Force ◽

Lisbon Strategy ◽

National Programme ◽

Eu Countries ◽

Structural Support ◽

Social Environmental ◽

Eu Commission ◽

Complex Influence ◽

Eu Support ◽

The Eu

During the last years the changes of social ‐ economic situation have been fast, however, according to individual macroeconomic indexes Lithuania is still significantly below the average of EU countries. To decrease these discrepancies the EU grants the structural support, the use of which is anticipated to establish strong and competitive economy, to train qualified labour force and stimulate social and economic cohesion. The efficient and expedient use of the EU support would enable Lithuania to implement the national Lisbon strategy programme and contribute to the implementation of the very Lisbon strategy guidelines. However, the investigations showed that the use of the support is not sufficient enough to secure the efficient progress of the country. The article analyses the aspects of the EU regional policy financing and the expected results of implementing the Lisbon strategy actions; it analyses economic, social, environmental, and other indexes of the economies of Lithuania and EU countries and assesses the result of the country's progress in implementing the Lisbon strategy. The research on the expedience of using the EU structural support and its impact on the country's progress was carried out. The research made on the use of the EU support and its impact on the country's progress suggests that about two thirds of the measures correspond to the national programme for implementing the Lisbon strategy but only few indicators have a complex influence on the progress indexes. Therefore, while preparing the programmes of the EU support use for 2007–2013 and coordinating them with the EU Commission a better harmonization of this support use measures with the national programme for implementing the Lisbon strategy is necessary, and the measures have to be implemented in a complex manner, as well as the horizontal compatibility of the measures has to be maintained.

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Companies’ human rights compliance: the EU integrated approach to support the duty to assess and address human rights related risks of business activities

Unio - EU Law Journal ◽

10.21814/unio.3.2.6 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 57-71

Author(s):

Marta Gatti

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Corporate Social Responsibility ◽

National Level ◽

Integrated Approach ◽

The Other ◽

Recent Developments ◽

The One ◽

Corporate Social ◽

Eu Support ◽

The Eu

The purpose of this article is, on the one hand, to describe EU support of the adoption of a corporate social responsibility policy by EU undertakings, both within and outside the EU borders. On the other hand, this article will focus on the most recent developments in the field of human rights reporting at national level and, in particular, on the French commitment to implement mechanisms to prevent infringements on human rights across the supply chain.

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Resilience in agriculture: how can cap direct payments impact it?

10.22616/rrd.26.2020.026 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Agne Zickiene ◽

Keyword(s):

Agricultural Policy ◽

Common Agricultural Policy ◽

Crop Insurance ◽

Direct Payment ◽

Direct Payments ◽

Agricultural Resilience ◽

And Behavior ◽

Attitudes And Behavior ◽

Eu Support ◽

The Eu

The increasing frequency and magnitude of adverse meteorological events together with the growing uncertainty in the upcoming future pose more and more challenges to agriculture. Therefore, the future sustainability of agriculture will increasingly depend on its resilience, i.e. the capacity to withstand various perturbations and to recover from them. The direct payment (DP) system of the EU Common agricultural policy (CAP) is the most financed EU support scheme for agriculture; however, research on its impact on the important phenomena of resilience is scarce and fragmented. In order to fill this gap, this paper offers an extensive overview of literature and a summarized list of factors that are mentioned most often as potentially influencing the agricultural resilience. Based on this, the possible impact of DP on agricultural resilience was analyzed. In this paper, it is argued that this impact is transferred mostly through changing farms’ financial capabilities as well as farmers’ attitudes and behavior, and is both positive and negative. Such phenomena as low crop insurance uptake and decrease in productivity may be due to the overcrowding effects of direct payments. These hypotheses are being tested in a survey, conducted in the meantime.

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Prospects for Europe in the second quarter

Emerald Expert Briefings ◽

10.1108/oxan-db198200 ◽

2015 ◽

Keyword(s):

High Stakes ◽

Content Type ◽

Conservative Government ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Eu Membership ◽

External Threat ◽

To Come ◽

To Receive ◽

Eu Support ◽

The Eu

Subject Prospects for Europe in the second quarter. Significance This quarter will see highly contentious, high-stakes politics that could shape the future of the EU for years to come. First, a decision point is fast approaching that will determine whether Greece will continue to receive bailouts or be cut off from EU support, default on its debt and -- potentially -- exit the euro-area. Second, the United Kingdom could re-elect a Conservative government, which would then follow through on its vow to hold an 'in-out' referendum on EU membership by 2017. Finally, the EU faces a crucial test of unity against its greatest external threat -- Russia.

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EU will avoid new Russia sanctions as long as it can

Emerald Expert Briefings ◽

10.1108/oxan-db240896 ◽

2019 ◽

Keyword(s):

European Parliament ◽

Legal Action ◽

Content Type ◽

The Us ◽

Nord Stream ◽

Eu Support ◽

The Eu

Subject EU responses to Russian actions around Ukraine. Significance EU sanctions imposed in 2014 remain in place owing to continuing concerns about Russian interference in elections, the poison attack on former spy Sergey Skripal and covert Russian activities in Ukraine and elsewhere. However, the EU has resisted pressure to take immediate action after the Kerch Straits incident, in which Russian coast guards captured three Ukrainian naval vessels. Impacts The US position on sanctions currently mirrors EU restraint, but Washington would be forced to act by blatant Russian aggression. Ukraine will call for EU support while using legal action in an attempt to hamper Gazprom's alternative gas export routes. European Parliament resolutions condemning Nord Stream 2 will have little impact on German support for the project.

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Personality’s cross-national impact across EU attitude dimensions

Research & Politics ◽

10.1177/2053168020972812 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 7 (4) ◽

pp. 205316802097281

Author(s):

K. Amber Curtis ◽

Julie Hassing Nielsen

Keyword(s):

Big Five ◽

Theoretical Development ◽

The European Union ◽

Eu Member States ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Eu Membership ◽

Original Survey ◽

Eu Support ◽

The Eu ◽

Cross National

Studies increasingly suggest that personal predispositions affect political attitudes, including those towards the European Union (EU). Yet little is known about the extent to which personality effects on EU support generalize across European countries or attitude domains. We use original survey data from five EU member states (Denmark, Germany, Poland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom) to investigate how the Big Five (B5) traits affect four different facets of public opinion toward the EU (support for further EU unification, views on EU membership, trust in EU institutions and support for using the euro). While we find that each of the B5 matters in at least one place, we find little consistency in personality’s effects across countries. Neither does any pattern emerge across most dimensions of EU support. Our results underscore the importance of isolating the contextual factors that might condition personality’s impact. They further call for greater theoretical development regarding why and how only certain national environments appear to lend themselves to personality effects. At a minimum, they suggest scholars should be wary of drawing conclusions about the B5’s impact from single cases.

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SME's Innovation and Internationalization in Knowledge-Based Economy

Advances in Business Strategy and Competitive Advantage - Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship in the Contemporary Knowledge-Based Global Economy ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-8798-1.ch019 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 445-478 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Tomasz Dorożyński ◽

Agnieszka Dorożyńska ◽

Anetta Kuna-Marszałek

Keyword(s):

Correlation Coefficient ◽

Rank Correlation ◽

Main Attention ◽

Eu Member States ◽

Knowledge Based ◽

Spearman’S Rank Correlation ◽

Knowledge Based Economy ◽

Spearman’S Rank Correlation Coefficient ◽

Eu Support ◽

The Eu

The main goal of the chapter is to make an assessment of the innovative position, the level of internationalization and potential of small and medium-sized enterprises in the EU in the light of challenges implied by the building of knowledge-based economy. The chapter comprises several parts. Main attention is paid to the substance and factors that shape the knowledge-based economy, determinants of innovation in SMEs and the assessment of SMEs' innovation and internationalization in the EU. We also analyzed dependence between the development level of the EU Member States and R&D expenditure and the level of innovation and competitiveness of individual countries. To this end we used Spearman's rank correlation coefficient. Final part of the chapter is devoted to the EU support scheme for small and medium-sized enterprises, in particular it focuses on instruments connected with innovation and internationalization.

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Macroeconomic aspects of the development of Slovak regions in the post-accession period

Agricultural Economics (Zemědělská ekonomika) ◽

10.17221/296-agricecon ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 54 (No. 8) ◽

pp. 367-375 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

E. Matejková ◽

A. Qineti ◽

R. Serenčéš

Keyword(s):

Regional Development ◽

Direct Investment ◽

Slovak Republic ◽

Living Standards ◽

Gdp Per Capita ◽

Per Capita ◽

Similar Development ◽

Real Challenge ◽

Eu Support ◽

The Eu

The objective of this paper is the analysis of the macroeconomic aspects of regional development in the Slovak Republic. Regional development is a much frequented topic recently. In the pre-accession period, Slovak regions had the opportunity of benefiting from the pre-accession funds and competing for finances through projects and strategies. The EU support did not stop with the accession, it continues with the increasing intensity and variability at present. The real challenge is how efficiently is this support used and if it goes to the destinations where it is most needed. For the purposes of the identification of regional development tendencies, we have tried to analyze the selected macroeconomic characteristics for Slovak regions at the NUTS III level. We analyze the following indicators: GDP per capita, labor productivity, foreign direct investment, so that we can explore the situation of living standards in the regions and the determinants. We use the cluster analysis approach in order to specify and identify the regions with similar development characteristics. Based on our findings, we make some recommendations on the support and development strategies for Slovak regions.

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