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The EU recently reframed its concept of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), recongising CSOs as important actors in their own right while developing a strategic approach to engage civil society in the European neighbourhood and third countries.

The EU needs a common vision for its energy future. A shift towards renewable energy sources will increase security of supply and foster the competitiveness and sustainability of the economy.

This article examines how German environmental policymaking over the last 40 years transformed Europe’s economic engine into the international driver of green growth.

The energy concept for new head office of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Berlin puts the building in the ecological vanguard. Highly innovative technology in small doses creates a pleasant working environment in the modern office spaces. It boasts an energy consumption of only 55.7 kWh/m2 , which undercuts the legal maximum by half. This makes the building a leader in the field of modern office and conference centre design.

Two years after Fukushima, global nuclear power generation continues to decline. If it were not for the World Nuclear Industry Status Report we probably would not know.

In a Europe shaken by austerity measures, budget cuts and economic crises, negotiations over a new European budget proved to be a highly contentious matter.

The EU is a prime actor in international human rights policy and the promotion of democracy. In fact, the respect for human rights, democracy, and the rule of law lie at the very heart of the European project and inform many of its policies and actions.

With the constitutional amendments adopted on the 11th of March, Viktor Orbán has once again caused a surprise. The reactions of the Western European public show that there is still an inadequate grasp of how political power is exercised by Orbán’s government. European democrats now finally need to formulate a common position against the power centralization in the country.

Giuseppe Avigliano is one of our Young Voices of Europe.

Buen Vivir is a Latin American concept which can be understood in three differing ways, but mainly as a critique to the Western way of development. The equivalent school of thoughts in Europe is based on the, the Green New Deal, which proposes a strategy to confront the challenges of global warming, finite resources and etc. Despite this connection, the Green New Deal it is not a goal in itself, it is just a tool, differing from a political philosophy like Buen Vivir.