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The Interplay between the Circular Economy and the European Semester: An assessment. CEPS Research Report No. 2017/16, December 2017

Behrens, Arno and Rizos, Vasileios (2017) The Interplay between the Circular Economy and the European Semester: An assessment. CEPS Research Report No. 2017/16, December 2017. UNSPECIFIED.

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    Abstract

    The European Semester is the European Union’s annual cycle of economic policy guidance and oversight. Although monitoring the achievement of Europe 2020 Strategy targets, some of which focus on energy and climate change, is among the key actions of the European Semester, the reviewers so far have concentrated on economic policies in the aftermath of the financial and economic crisis. The circular economy is currently part of the European Commission’s agenda for jobs, growth and investment, which are important themes of the Semester. Against this background, this paper assesses the extent to which the European Semester genuinely takes the circular economy into account in its review process. Based on a close examination of the 2017 cycle of the Semester and interviews with experts in the field, our analysis shows that the exercise has devoted limited attention to the circular economy. Several explanations are offered for this situation, along with recommendations for the way forward.

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    Item Type: Other
    Uncontrolled Keywords: circular economy, European Semester, resource efficiency, macroeconomic impacts
    Subjects for non-EU documents: EU policies and themes > Policies & related activities > economic and financial affairs > economic policy
    Subjects for EU documents: UNSPECIFIED
    EU Series and Periodicals: UNSPECIFIED
    EU Annual Reports: UNSPECIFIED
    Series: Series > Centre for European Policy Studies (Brussels) > CEPS Research Reports
    Depositing User: Phil Wilkin
    Official EU Document: No
    Language: English
    Date Deposited: 04 Jan 2018 13:38
    Number of Pages: 23
    Last Modified: 04 Jan 2018 13:38
    URI: http://aei.pitt.edu/id/eprint/92810

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