The ARCTIC information report - how to ensure a peaceful, sustainable and prosperous future for a geostrategic region

Background

The Arctic region is of key strategic importance for the EU, in view of climate change, raw materials as well as geostrategic influence.

Key points:

In the information report, the EESC focuses on the demographic, environmental and socio-economic impacts that climate change and the transformation of the Arctic have on the livelihoods of the region's inhabitants, including indigenous peoples, as well as on the local economies and communities.

The EESC:

• The ARCTIC information report - how to ensure a peaceful, sustainable and prosperous future for a geostrategic region;
• Believes it is in the EU's interest to ensure that the Arctic, as an important geostrategic region, does not change permanently from a low- to a high-tension area with all the inherent risks of unintentional clashes and escalation;
• Believes it is in the EU's interest to ensure that the Arctic, as an important geostrategic region, does not change permanently from a low- to a high-tension area with all the inherent risks of unintentional clashes and escalation;

The full report can be found here

Additional information

EESC section : External Relations Section (REX)

Opinion type: Information report

 Rapporteur: Anders Ladefoged (Employers' Group, GR-I, Denmark)

-Co-rapporteur: Christian Moos (Civil Society Organisations' Group, GR-III, Germany)

Reference : REX/568-EESC-2023

Date of adoption by section: 18/07/2023

Date of adoption in plenary : 20-21 September 2023

Result of the vote : 190 in favour/ 2 abstention/ 3 against

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