Giving specific examples to support your argument, show how the EU's environmental policy has helped or constrained European business.

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EU Environmental Policy:

Repercussions on European Business

"EU environmental regulation sounds the death knell for European

businesses in a world, which becomes increasingly competitive."

- Natasha Howard, Business Research Executive, Institute of Directors -

Assignment Question:

Giving specific examples to support your argument, show how the EU's environmental policy has helped or constrained European business.

Name: Ronald Klingebiel

SID: 0013979/1

Module Code: BCH1E09

Module Title: European Union - Industrial Policy

Module Leader: Prof. Jill Preston

Word Count: 976 Words

Table of Content

1 Introduction 3

2 Business Impact of Environmental Policy 3

2.1 Framing Dimensions 3

2.2 Negative Stimuli 4

2.3 Neutral View 6

2.4 Positive Stimuli 7

3 Conclusions 7

4 Bibliography 9

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Introduction

Although many company spokesmen intuitively sympathise with Natasha Howard's view, the impact of EU environmental regulation is controversially discussed among practitioners and academics alike. In this context, scientific evidence suggests that the effects of environmental policies cannot be generalised. Instead, they vary strongly with a firm's size and sector and depend on the stringency of implementation among EU