With the support of Austria's Federal Ministry of Finance and the World Bank, the Climate Support Facility's Western Balkans Plus Program has been promoting climate action and green growth across the countries of the Western Balkan Six since 2020 and expanded its activities intro Central Asia in 2023. This program shows that international collaboration, innovation, and timely funding can enable countries to address crucial climate and environmental challenges and build a more sustainable, resilient future for all.
There are worries about both the current level of growth in the Eurozone and its longer-term viability, both of which are addressed in a report by former Italian PM, Mario Draghi, who calls for a boost in spending to aid the digital and green transitions.
The longer-term fear is that low productivity in the zone, and being out-competed by China is going to affect social cohesion and pose problems for the EU in the longer-term.