Implementation of the Global Gateway strategy through the new EU Circular Economy Resource Centre

Abstract

Circular economy is a crucial component within European Green Deal strategy that is continuously emphasized in various policies. Parallel to this, the management technologies on economic circularity related to standardization and digitalization takes on significance. Important to note that a new initiative on the establishment of a EU Circular Economy Resource Center is in process. The initiative prioritizes knowledge, policy-making, and business features as part of the circular economy ecosystem that is necessary to study. In this context, the EU enlargement and integration policy (such as The Global Gateway) refers to these priorities; that means the circular economy can be considered as a research object within the implementation of the Global Gateway and the development of the Circular Economy Resource Center. The paper investigates the circular economy management ecosystem in the framework of the knowledge-driven, sustainability-oriented, and technology-based policy-making. Green deal, circularity approaches and bio-economy that are important components of EU policies are discussed within EU Circular Economy Resource Centre. In the paper, the policy interoperability with non-EU countries, which are interconnected with EU through strong documentary base, are considered. Integration of partners from geographical large areas like Neighborhood countries, Asia, Africa and Latin America through EU circular economy know how, is a completely new policy that targeted networking rather than dependence. In this paper the peculiarities of this approach also is considered as a soft policy that brings common benefit. The achievement of this interdisciplinary research is related to conceptualization of field related policy documents, regulations, and cross-border cooperation in the circular economy within sustainable development. In general, local initiatives contributing global tendences on sustainability through circular technologies is the main conclusion of the research.