Christa Schweng

Christa Schweng has been the President of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) since October 2020. She has been an EESC member for 22 years.

The Circular Economy as a Pillar of the EU’s Development

Our world population consumes 110 billion tonnes of materials a year and wastes over 90 percent of them. Only 7.2 percent of those materials make it back into our economy and, according to the Circu...