By Hein-Anton van der Heijden
This e-book analyzes how the eu environmental circulation has stimulated the matter definitions and resolution suggestions of eu coverage concerns, examining biodiversity, GMOs, Trans-European delivery Networks, and weather switch.
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In addition, NGOs also contribute to European integration. By encouraging national NGOs to work together, the European NGO network makes an important contribution to the formation of a European public opinion, at least according to the European Commission (Smismans 2003: 479). Although in this conceptualization all three levels of civil society as distinguished by Edwards can be recognized, the way the European Commission tries to frame European civil society has been severely criticized (Hunold 2005, Rumford 2003, Smismans 2003).
In the second section the evolution of environmental planning in the European Union will be analyzed. From the early 1970s onward, the European Commission has published a series of six successive Environmental Action Programmes, in which environmental priorities were set, the connections with other policy areas were assessed and the most important instruments to reach the environmental objectives were determined. To a large extent environmental policy-making can be seen as environmental law-making: over the last fifty years more than 500 pieces of European environmental law have been adopted.
4. A second reason to include civil society theory has to do with democracy in the European Union. Scholte has argued that global civil society could contribute to the solution of two major structural problems caused by globalization: the disjunction between territorial spaces and territorial self-determination, and the changing contours of the demos under contemporary globalization. Scholte’s remarks not only apply to globalization and global civil society, but likewise to Europeanization and European civil society.
