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The paper includes the issues related to sustainable development in the energy-using sectors in the European Union countries. The paper presents the analysis of participation of renewable energy in the total energy consumption in these sectors of the European economy. It was found that participation of renewable energy in the total energy balance continues to increase, differs in each country and...
The purpose of research is to analyze selected social indicators of rural sustainable development in the EU Member States in 2000-2012, and to determine their main tendencies. To describe those tendencies and changes that took place in rural areas, the factor analysis has been implemented. Three main factors have been worked out to determine the synthetic index (SI) of social development of rural...
In 2004, eight Central and Eastern European countries joined the European Union. Their agriculture was significantly behind the majority of the 15 former EU member countries both from technical and productivity perspectives. In the common market the competitiveness of products and producers is a key factor. One important factor of competitiveness is labour productivity, which can be divided into partial...
Ensuring high quality and safety of food has become one of the priorities of the Common Agricultural Policy pursued both at the level of the European Union and individual Member States, including Poland. Consequently, among the measures in the Rural Development Programme for 2007-2013 was Measure 133 ‘Information and promotion activities’ designed to make consumers aware of the specificity of high-quality...
Investigating regional differences on a domestic and international scale is a current scientific issue. EU integration after enlargement in 2004 has provided a more complex picture. In the present study, the assessment of regional differences is based on the much criticized but most widely accepted measure – GDP per capita of the NUTS 2 regions of EU member states standardized by purchasing power...
For the countries of the Central Europe, the regional policy measures which concentrate on the maintenance of the small and medium sized producer’s units and are trying to find solutions to the worsening negative circumstances for the family farms (in the EU-12, 68.5% of farms are regarded as being semi-self-subsistent [Statistical… 2010, p. 85] are particularly important. It is unanimously acknowledged...
The article estimates the static effects of a customs union in agri-food trade of the new Member States of the European Union. It was proved that in all the countries of Central and Eastern Europe which are members of the Community the acceptance of Community acquis in trade policy resulted in both the effect of trade creation and trade diversion, where the former was stronger.
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