The External Economic Dimension of the European Union

2000 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Economic Dimension

scholarly journals Agricultural Entrepreneurship in the European Union: Contributions for a Sustainable Development

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 2080
Author(s):  
Vítor João Pereira Domingues Martinho
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Agricultural Policies ◽  
Educational Training ◽  
Economic Dimension ◽  
Long Run ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Agricultural Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship is sometimes seen as a glimmer of hope which may bring about some contribution towards improving economic dynamics and performance, specifically in the creation of employment by young people, in general, with further educational training, greater flexibility and who are better prepared for working with new technologies. However, entrepreneurship in the agricultural sector is, in certain circumstances, viewed as being something incompatible or, at least, difficult to implement. More scientific studies in these fields could provide interesting contributions on the road to highlighting new ideas inside the farming sector. In this framework, the objective of this study is to explore the entrepreneurship dimensions within the European Union agriculture towards a more sustainable sector. In fact, without an economic dimension in farm management, its sustainability in the medium and long run may be compromised, increasing the abandonment of farming, namely in more disadvantaged regions. For this, the literature which is available on the platform Web of Science relating to the following three topics was initially analysed: entrepreneurship, agriculture, and the European Union. This literature was clustered through the VOSviewer software, an interesting tool for performing bibliometric analysis. Secondly, statistical information related to European Union agricultural entrepreneurship considering empirical approaches was also explored. The analysis carried out shows that the realities across European Union countries are, in fact, different, where the instruments from the common agricultural policies, for example, may play a crucial role in promoting more farming entrepreneurship in a more sustainable way.

The European Union’s Strategy on Hybrid Threats

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-181
Author(s):  
Sławomir Stanisław Górski
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Transfer Of Knowledge ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Social Resilience ◽  
Member States ◽  
Economic Dimension ◽  
Analytical Potential ◽  
The Social ◽  
Effective Exchange ◽  
Hybrid Threats

The article discusses and analyses the terminology and gives a description of hybrid threats. Particular emphasis is placed on their diversity, variability and the problematic nature of  methods used by  an  aggressor in  order to  destabilise the social, political and economic environments against which the hostile activities are targeted. The areas which may be under the influence of hybrid threats have been indicated and many aspects of these threats’ influence on a contemporary countries’ functioning have also been underlined. The main focus of hybrid threats’ considerations is put in the context of the European Union. The related strategic documents have been analysed and the directions of action defined in them, which may prevent or neutralise the consequences of hybrid threats, have been described, as well. Particular attention has been paid to the analysis of the ”Joint Framework on countering hybrid threats”, the strategic document which acts as a map for joint anti-hybrid activities. The directions of action defined in it may, in the author’s opinion, contribute to building up resistance to hybrid threats. Particularly legitimate are activities which aim at providing an appropriate level of situational knowledge, as well as effective exchange of intelligence information among the European Union’s institutions and its member states. What is more, developing the analytical potential and the transfer of knowledge of hybrid threats, which is carried out by joint centres of excellence, may result in a situation where the influence of these threats on the social, political and economic dimension of the member states’ functioning is smaller. Comparisons between the common strategic solutions to hybrid threats and other instruments of the European Union relating to the internal security (civil protection, solidarity clause) have been made in the article. The summary discusses the directions of antihybrid strategic activities, among which developing the awareness of threats and strengthening the social resilience to hybrid threats have been given special emphasis.

scholarly journals Indicators for the economic dimension of sustainable agriculture in the European Union

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 179-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gábor Valkó ◽  
Mária Fekete-Farkas ◽  
Ildikó Kovács
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Sustainable Agriculture ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Economic Dimension

scholarly journals The Case of the European Union Partnership and Cooperation Agreement Negotiations with Thailand

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Naila Maier-Knapp
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
International Political Economy ◽  
Negotiation Process ◽  
Historical Institutionalism ◽  
Developing Economy ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Cooperation Agreement ◽  
Economic Dimension ◽  
Negotiation Theory ◽  
The Eu

This article examines the European Union’s (EU) current negotiations of the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) with Thailand. It asks why the EU has entered into the negotiation process with this remote developing economy and provides theoretical explanations for the EU’s motivations. It will give an overview of the process and discuss the issues that have emerged in the course of the negotiations and are currently pending. The article will assess the pre-negotiation phase and the obstacles during the negotiation phase that have delayed the conclusion of the process. The findings will allude to historical institutionalism and a self-devised content-context approach synthesised with William I. Zartman’s insights on negotiation theory. The article argues that despite the importance of the economic dimension of the negotiations and the general prevalence of international political economy in explaining the EU’s relations with Asia, this case reveals a complexity of variables that contest a purely economic lens and allow a theoretically eclectic and reflectivist understanding of the impediments, stimuli and of the process itself.

Economic Security of the European Union in the Context of the Dynamics of Development of Globalized World Economy

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (39) ◽  
pp. 22-36
Author(s):  
Lucia Rysova ◽  
Rastislav Kazansky
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
European Integration ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Economic Environment ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Regional Economic ◽  
Economic Dimension ◽  
Integration Area

The European Union is currently one of the most sophisticated and comprehensively developed examples of regional economic integration. The analysis of selected strategic documents adopted and implemented on the territory of the European Union primarily focused on the economic dimension of further development of this complex and economically interconnected transnational economic complex shows, that one of the main, strategic goals are oriented on the higher economic convergence and cohesion within its internal space, as well as the full range of objectives aimed at maintaining and improving its position in the world economy. Changes in the internal and external economic environment of the European Union, often associated with a certain degree of unpredictability of their effects, determine the dynamics of economic development of the European Union and the degree of economic security achieved. The presented contribution focuses on the study of the formation of a specific model of economic security forming in the environment of the European integration area. In the context of the indicated starting points of the research, the main attention is focused on selected aspects and factors based on the possibility to identify development trends in the processes of shaping economic security within the European integration area. In the process of elaboration of the submitted professional contribution, its authors focused on the following basic research questions: How does the European Union approach the formation of economic security in its internal economic environment formed on the basis of specific national economic complexes of individual member states? Which selected factors need to be examined in the context of monitoring the development of economic security within the European integration area and to follow their development direction? Based on monitoring and predicting the possible future development of selected factors supporting the formation of economic security to deduce how the level of economic security is currently achieved by the European Union and what are the possible future trends in this area? Several methods and procedures were used in the process of processing the submitted paper. The frequency of use of individual methods and procedures was different in individual parts of the presented text. In the process of processing the outputs of the research into a comprehensive text of the submitted paper, the analysis, comparison, as well as the synthesis of collected knowledge, data and information and comprehensive and logically arranged units were most significantly used. Different types of data and data which were the result of the application of various mathematical-statistical methods and procedures, were also used in the process of processing the submitted paper. The outputs of the research of the subject of the paper can be summarised as follows. The European Union currently has the appropriate starting conditions for shaping a comprehensive model of economic security. Inwards, as well as innovations, it acts in the context of economic security as a stable economic actor with a well-developed and well-established economic environment. The economic security of the European Union, as well as other geoeconomic actors, is determined by the dynamics of the development of the global and regional economic environment. In view of the indicated dynamics of development, it will be necessary in the future for the European Union to have created economic structures capable of responding flexibly to these influences and subsequently adapting to them effectively.

scholarly journals Investigate the Exit of the Britain from European Union and Its Impacts on the International Community

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 56
Author(s):  
Mohammad Ehsan Chaboki
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Economic Dimension ◽  
Complementary Role ◽  
History Of ◽  
Restrictive Measures ◽  
Second World

Although Europe is not a superpower, but it is a great world power, at least in the economic dimension and it has a decisive effect on many international issues. Means it has much to say in relation to trade, the environment, drug control, natural disasters, and serious illnesses and so on. But in the field of policy passing the restrictive measures that puts on its agenda, in the major and basic issues it inevitably should cooperate with US and follow it. Europe on these types of subjects, considers inevitably a complementary role of America for itself at least for some time. So a sense that at the time was applied in Germany is also true about the current Union: European Union is an economic giant and a political dwarf that lacks the characteristics of a great and perfect power. It seems that no issue had been raised as the importance of exit of Britain from the European Union and the effects that it will leave from the end of the Second World War up to now means more than 70 years. Location and history of Britain add to the importance of this issue. The exit of Britain apart from the business and economic consequences can create a political and psychological shock in European developments. As entering of Great Britain took place loudly within a decade (Eventually, in 1973), leaving this country is associated with a lot of coverage in 4 recent years. This issue has been become one of the concerns of circles of Britain and Europe. America and Canada have also repeatedly warned about the negative consequences of this exit that we will discuss it in this paper.

Europejski model społeczno-ekonomiczny w dobie kryzysu, w opinii Komisji Konferencji Biskupów (Episkopatów) Wspólnoty Europejskiej (COMECE)

2016 ◽  
pp. 108-125
Author(s):  
Aleksandra KUSZTAL
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Economic Model ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Free Market Economy ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Economic Dimension ◽  
Current Form ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Eu

The aim of this article, is to present the position of European churches, which are represented in the Commission of Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community (COMECE), regarding the issue of social and economic model of the European Union in the time of crisis. Article focuses on the reflection of the Commission on social and economic model which was adopted in the EU. The main sources for the purpose of this article, were first and foremost the official documents of COMECE, dedicated to this subject, in the peak of the economic crisis in Europe (2008–2012). The main thesis of the following considerations is that, the economic dimension of European integration and socio-economic model of free market economy, which was adopted in the EU, in its current form, in times of crisis, has become the subject of strong criticism by the COMECE.

scholarly journals European Union Housing Policy—An Attempt to Synthesize the Actions Taken

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
Ewa Kucharska-Stasiak ◽  
Sabina Źróbek ◽  
Konrad Żelazowski
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Housing Policy ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The European Union ◽  
European Union Policy ◽  
Economic Dimension ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Right

Adequate housing conditions are an indicator of a decent life, whereas the lack is one of the main reason behind so-called social exclusion. The importance of housing, in ensuring the social safety of citizens, as well as supporting social equity, has been emphasized for decades. Housing, however, also has an important economic dimension. A developed housing sector, in a broad sense guaranteeing the right to housing, is indicated as one of the main conditions for long-term economic growth. The significant role of housing, in deepening integrational processes on the old continent, has also been observed by the European Union. This article is a review and comprises of an attempt to synthesize arguments justifying the need to expand the European Union policy to include housing-related issues. For this purpose, a historical context of the perception of the role of housing in the process of European integration is presented; it characterizes the main phases of incorporating housing into EU policy, as well as indicating the most important areas and instruments of the European Union’s influence on the housing policy of member countries, along with an assessment of their results. The work makes use of the method of the critical analysis of literature, as well as an analysis of EU legal regulations, accounts, and reports referring to the housing sphere. Studies confirm the need for active involvement, aimed at including housing in the scope of EU competencies. The undertaken initiatives of a political, social, economic, environmental, and legal nature are the main forms of recommendations, propositions, and instruments supporting the implementation of common values. Studies conducted to date indicate that the implementation of a single EU housing policy for all member states is neither a simple nor desired task. A more effective solution would unquestionably be seeking out general solutions, addressed to groups of countries functioning under similar conditions. A European housing programme, which holds the status of European law supporting national housing policies, should be such a solution.

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