working group
For
a Green monitoring of the sustainability strategy of the
EU
introduction
After the Gothenburg Summit had defined
the EU sustainability strategy, the Barcelona Summit is
supposed to concretise its application and implementation.
This poses two types of problems:
- Which are the criteria for judging, whether this EU strategy
will serve as another step towards sub-ordination European
politics to neo-liberal globalisation policies, as they
have been advocated by the OECD in a strategy document (January
2001), or opening a realistic possibility of developing
sustainability in the entire EU context, without externalising
ecological burdens to the South or to the accession countries?
- How can this strategy contribute to strengthening or weakening
the political capabilities of the EU and its member states
to reach green policy objectives in other dimensions (esp.
social cohesion, a new type of full employment, gender equality,
regional and social solidarity) ?
These two questions could be discussed with experts working
on this fields on a European level.
Experts to be invited: Joachim Spangenberg, SERI (Cologne);
Meike Spitzner, Wuppertal Institut (Wuppertal).
preparation
Here
we would like to publish some back-up for our working group.
Frieder Otto Wolf to act as convenor
together with Pia Paust-Lassen. Possible co-convenors could
be: Sergio Andreis, Italy; Bernard Guibert, France; Leo
Seserko, Slovenia; John Whitelegg, Lancaster.
For any further questions, please
do not hesitate to get in touch with either one of us:
