An ambitious and climate-focused Commission agenda for post COVID-19 EU
2020
29
6
1112–1117
environmental policy ; EU policy ; economic recovery ; climate change ; epidemic disease ; EU Commission
European Union
https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2020.1784010
English
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"The new European Commission headed by Ursula von der Leyen was appointed in December 2019 with bold and ambitious plans to address climate change and cross-cutting environmental issues that contrasted sharply with the Juncker Commission. Yet, within a few months of the publication of its environmental agenda, the COVID-19 pandemic profoundly changed the political and economic context, leading the Commission to re-frame its environmental agenda in the proposed recovery plan in May 2020. The far-reaching language of the Political Guidelines concerning the European Green Deal (EGD) as the EU's environmental agenda demonstrates the extent of the Commission's ambition."
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