{"id":1738,"date":"2016-09-14T14:00:24","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T12:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eebtestsite.oldcontinent.eu\/?p=1738"},"modified":"2017-05-22T17:52:02","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T15:52:02","slug":"juncker-fails-to-join-dots-in-state-of-the-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/en\/juncker-fails-to-join-dots-in-state-of-the-union\/","title":{"rendered":"Juncker fails to join dots in State of the Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>The State of the Union <a href=\"http:\/\/europa.eu\/rapid\/press-release_SPEECH-16-3043_en.htm\">speech<\/a> given by EU President Jean-Claude Juncker this morning showed he had\u00a0made an effort to\u00a0understand the mood\u00a0in Europe and the need to reach out to and empower citizens. However, once again he failed to join up the dots between securing social benefits and tackling environmental challenges.<\/h4>\n<p>Jeremy Wates, European Environmental Bureau Secretary General, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cPresident Juncker underlined the need for the EU to become \u201cmore social,\u2019 but failed to demonstrate any understanding of how the collapse of Europe\u2019s and the rest of the world\u2019s ecosystems, overconsumption of resources and climate change are posing an existential threat to Europe\u2019s ability to secure citizens a good life, within planetary boundaries.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>During the EEB\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/eebtestsite.oldcontinent.eu\/wpfd_file\/eeb-conference-report-actions-for-nature-14-september-2016\/\">Actions for Nature<\/a> conference that is also taking place today, DG Environment\u2019s Daniel Calleja Crespo insisted that \u201conly by rowing together we will be able to achieve our goals\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>This will require the EU to embrace the 2030 agenda of transformational change by making the recently agreed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris climate agreement central to all its actions, <a href=\"http:\/\/eebtestsite.oldcontinent.eu\/europe-must-put-people-and-planet-first\/\">putting people and planet first<\/a> and adopting one single comprehensive political strategy to put this into place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State of the Union speech given by EU President Jean-Claude Juncker this morning showed he had\u00a0made an effort to\u00a0understand the mood\u00a0in Europe and the need<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[148],"class_list":["post-1738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-reaction"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Enforcement-6.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}