# 4 .23 - Reinforcing the EU’s Green Deal Diplomacy: Recommendations for the Next Commission

as an input into the debates about the future design of the > In its relations with enlargement and EGD and its GDD, its content synthesises the key insights of neighbourhood, trade and development a collective reflection exercise of a group of students in the partners, as well as in bilateral exchanges and M. [...] An exam- on Article 191 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU ple are the Trade and Sustainable Development (TSD) chap- (TFEU), energy (especially the choice of energy sources) ters which introduce EU climate and environmental aims into partially remains the prerogative of EU member states in line its Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). [...] bour force, aggravated by existing differences between the economic indicators of the EU on the one hand and the Such deliberate action can come, second, in the form of an Western Balkan and EaP countries on the other. [...] This transfer typically involves the To facilitate the externalisation of the ETS to countries in the leveraging of the prospects of closer partnership or EU mem- Western Balkans (and beyond), and to transcend the ‘Initia- tive for coal regions in transition in the Western Balkans and ThReoeirnisfionrgc itnhge tEhNe PE U– ’Cs oGnrfeeerne nDceea Rl eDpipolrotm acy: Recommendations for the Next Comm. [...] This would enable the EU to better gauge the ensure that expertise is shared with the latter, even though existing obstacles to the adoption of its norms, and devise, these players are very relevant for the implementation of EU together with its partner countries, the most effective solu- acquis.