Poltical Economy of European Integration M.A.
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Food waste or loss is generated within the entire food supply chain from agricultural production to the household level. The level of food waste in the overall food supply chain has negative economic, environmental, and social impacts. The EU has designed and initiated multiple policies targeting and including many different policy areas to tackle food waste. Therefore, this study examines challenges and obstacles facing existing EU food waste policies and initiatives, highlighting the reasons behind the inefficiencies in food waste governance from legislative and food regime theory perspectives. After carefully analyzing current EU legislation related to food waste, the findings indicate that the existing legislation and actions to tackle food waste are disconnected and irregular, such that no agreed comprehensive and established approaches are at the EU level. Existing interventions have hardly addressed the food waste problem directly. While prioritizing the donation of food surplus and food waste hierarchy, the role of market power and corporations and structural explanations in the global food industry have been missing. Therefore, there is a need for a holistic approach to address the issue and an integrated policy framework to tackle food waste.
This master thesis aims to identify the defining variables for a market ramp-up of electric road systems (ERS) and to develop scenarios for the potential market launch of the technology in Germany and Europe. For this purpose, a comprehensive analysis of the political, regulatory and economic variables is conducted, which finally leads to the generation of different market ramp-up scenarios.
This paper investigates the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in the catching-up level and global value chain (GVC) integration of new European member states (NMS), considering the manufacturing sector using data of different time spans within the 1990 – 2019 period. After analyzing the differences in FDI inflows in NMS, eight of them are chosen and focused in the study including Poland, Czechia, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bulgaria and Romania. Poland and Slovenia are discussed as case studies and evidences of GVC integration. The findings revealed that the inflows of FDI have limited impact and contribution to the improvement of the host economy’s manufacturing industry, economic development and GVC integration. Indeed, FDI mostly relates to product and process upgrading but not functional upgrading. Therefore, the development gap between the NMS and core European economies is not decreased over time. With regards to utilize FDI for economic upgrading, GVC integration, and catching-up, this research stresses the importance of host economies’ absorptive capability and government intervention through industrial policy.