Environmental issues have been effectively introduced into a number of EU policies.
Discuss.

We can date the emergence of environmental preoccupations in the 1970’s, with the two oil crisis in 1973 and 1979. But it is in 1972 that the way to bring a common policy concerning the protection of the environment into play is open, during the heads of state and government conference, in Paris. Since what, the European environmental policy has progressively involved, from minimal and thematic legislations to a global and integrated strategy. The Treaty of Amsterdam has reinforced the importance of environmental policy in the European Union, and especially the notion of sustained development. In 1986, the Single Act stated the basis and principles by integrating to the Treaty of the European Economic Community a seventh title: “the Environment”, and said it would be taken into account for all communitarian policies. Now, it is one of the main objectives of the European Union policy. The European Union applies the strictest environmental norms in the world; they represent the fruit of decades of hard work and concern several fields. Today, the priorities are the fight against the climate change, for the preservation of biodiversity, the reduction of pollution effects upon health and the responsible use of natural resources. Those objectives of environmental protection can also be levers for economic growth because they stimulate innovation.
So, we can wonder how environment is represented in European policies and decisions taken.
To answer, we can first analyze the place for the environmental policy in European policies, the fields concerned, then, how it is concretized in different policies, and what is done to promote environmental protection.

First, we can say that environment concerns the future; that is why it is so important to deal with it in politics. This is one of the issues in European Union policies which must be thought to the long term, hence the