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In the last years, the fact of anthropogenic impact on climate change taking place in the world has become indisputable. Both countries and international organizations have taken steps to reduce GHG emissions, move to a low-carbon economy and implement solutions that reduce human impact on the environment. The EU, by intensifying its activities, has also prepared a strategy known as the European Green Deal. In implementing the EGD, it is important to analyze the impact of energy development in energy-intensive sectors of the economy (industry, transport, agriculture, services and other cores) on atmospheric pollution. Energy development is understood as the energy consumption percentage from all its consumption. In the article, complex correlation–regression analysis was implemented, which included not only energy development impact on the CO2 emissions level (i.e., production-based CO2 efficiency), but also its impact on economic growth. The research was conducted for the EU euro area countries. It was determined that the strongest positive correlation is to be found in the transport sector, which implies that with an increase in energy consumption in that sector, production-based CO2 efficiency is increasing. On the other hand, this increment in efficiency was relatively small and was achieved with the rapid growth of the energy consumption. The implemented research confirmed that the transportation sector is the one which is polluting the atmosphere the most with CO2 emissions in the Eurozone. The results of the implemented research could be used for the formation of targeted measures for the green growth strategy implementation, and also for ECB and EIB to support "green" projects.

We explore the redistributive effects of taxes and benefits in the 27 member states of the European Union (EU) using EUROMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation model for the EU. As well as describing redistributive effects in aggregate, we assess and compare the effectiveness of eight individual types of policy in reducing income disparities. We derive results for the 27 members of the EU using policies in effect in 2010 and present them for each country separately as well as for the EU as a whole.

"Slovenia and the European Union" published on by Oxford University Press.

The countries of central Europe, including Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria, suffer from environmental and occupational health problems created during the political system in place until the late 1980s. This situation is reflected by data on workplace exposure to hazardous agents. Such data have been systematically collected in Skovakia and the Czech Republic since 1977. The data presented describe mainly the situation in the early 1990s. The number of workers exposed to risk factors at the workplace represent about 10% of the working population in Slovakia and 30% in Poland. In Slovakia in 1992 the percentage of persons exposed to chemical substances was 16.4%, to ionizing radiation 4.3%, and to carcinogens 3.3% of all workers exposed to risk factors. The total number of persons exposed to substances proven to be carcinogens in Poland was 1.3% of the employees; 2.2% were exposed to the suspected carcinogens. The incidence of all certified occupational diseases in the Slovak Republic was 53 per 100,000 insured employees in 1992. Cancers certified as occupational cancers are skin cancer caused by occupational exposure to carcinogens, lung cancer caused by ionizing radiation, and asbestosis together with lung cancer. Specific information on occupational cancers from Romania and Bulgaria was not available for this paper. It is difficult to predict a trend for future incidences of occupational cancer. Improved control technology, governmental regulatory activity to reduce exposure, surveillance of diseases and risk factors, and vigilant use of preventive measures should, however, ultimately reduce occupational cancer.

Introduction -- Pork Products, 1961 : no unilateral safeguards -- Van Gend en Loos, 1963 : direct effect -- Costa v. ENEL, 1964 : supremacy -- Dairy Products, 1964 : no inter-state retaliation -- International Fruit, 1972 : no direct effect for the GATT -- Van Duyn, 1974 : direct effect of directives -- Simmenthal, 1978 : obligations of 'lower' national courts -- Sheep Meat, 1979 : no inter-state retaliation revisited -- Internationale Handelsgesellschaft, 1970 : protection of fundamental rights -- States and individuals in the great judgments of the European Court of Justice, 1961-1979.

Fiscal and Monetary Policy in the Eurozoneoffers systematic analyses of the economic policy framework of the Eurozone and critiques current ideas about how to move forward, making it essential reading for postgraduate students of economics and of keen interest to researchers, policymakers, journalists, and financial strategists

Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Abbreviations -- Part I Forged in crisis -- 1 How we got here -- The early years: first steps for peace and prosperity -- More members, some turbulence -- From "eurosclerosis" to the revenge of geopolitics -- A common market - and a common currency on the horizon -- 2 It seemed like a good idea at the time -- The optimal currency area that wasn't -- The Delors Report blueprint -- Carpe diem -- A successful convergence process -- Birth of a currency -- The years of innocence -- 3 Caught in the headlights -- Bailing out European banks -- The weakest link in the chain: Greece -- Bailing out Greece -- 4 The firefighters -- A bigger bazooka -- The Deauville moment -- Debt relief on the table -- Another Greek bailout - plus PSI -- 5 Fixing the bicycle while riding it -- "Whatever it takes" -- Two different episodes -- From fire-fighting to rebuilding -- Fiscal comes first … -- But macroeconomic imbalances matter as well … -- … as does governance -- 6 A dysfunctional family -- The new divide: creditors versus lenders -- The impact on EU institutions -- Part II Post-crisis -- 7 We are not in Kansas anymore -- Dealing with technology-based globalization -- From the Lisbon strategy … -- … to Europe 2020 -- The universal right to be heard -- 8 And then there were … -- "Fortress Europe" -- Taking back control -- Unexpected consequences -- 9 Safeguarding the currency -- The euro as a bumblebee -- Five presidents -- From Mars and from Venus -- New tools for a fiscal union -- A European Safe Asset -- A mechanism for debt restructuring -- Simplifying fiscal rules -- Completing the banking union -- 10 Squaring the institutional circle -- Beyond the new inter-governmentalism -- The evolution of the ESM.