European Union and Sustainable Development Assessment in the Business Sector

Art Kovačič ()
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Art Kovačič: Faculty of Commercial and Business Studies, Lava 7, 3000Celje, Slovenija

Management of Sustainable Development, 2018, vol. 10, issue 1, 37-48

Abstract: Assessment of sustainable position of selected countries is the important challenge in the last years. The sustainable theory has changed from the years of Rio conference and the availability of statistical resources is becoming better. Sustainable development is an important objective for each country. Enlargement of the EU has brought the current priorities and future direction of EU environmental policy sharply into focus. Enlargement process has increased the standards of environmental protection and social development. Significant environmental investments are necessary and the new members need to speed up their preparation for implementing the Goethenburg strategy “sustainable strategy”. CEE countries and also SEE countries are implementing sustainable development approach through integration process with European Union. So, the national strategies and development programmes are taking sustainability approach with EU documents

Keywords: economic development; benchmarking; development strategy; environmental economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.2478/msd-2018-0006

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