Europe's pursuit of competitiveness and security should not replace a long-term vision that brings benefits to citizens and well-being. The European Council's "strategic agenda" published in June said the EU's mandate for the next five years would focus on competitiveness and security. This vision is understandable if the goal is to convince European citizens and economic players that the EU can provide protection and strength in times of geopolitical and economic turbulence.<\/p>\n
However, the pursuit of competitiveness and security should not replace the political project and long-term vision of a Europe that brings citizens and well-being \u2013 and the goals of social and environmental sustainability should return to the political debate.<\/p>\n
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen appears to have reflected on this need in her political guidelines presented to the European Parliament in July. While she made it clear that competitiveness would be a key priority of the Clean Industry Deal - which will replace the European Green Deal - she said the Commission would "significantly increase its funding for Just Transition in the next long-term budget". (More on sustainableviews.com<\/span><\/a>)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Europe\u2019s drive for competitiveness and security should not replace a long-term vision that benefits citizens and prosperity. The \u2018Strategic Agenda of the European Council\u2019 published in June states that the EU\u2019s mandate for the next five years will focus on competitiveness and security. This vision is understandable if the aim is to convince European citizens and economic players that the EU [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adaptacia-na-zmenu-klimy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}