What's next in terms of events

Pedro Telles

Apr 15, 2024

Next week I will be taking part at two events run by the Centre for Climate Change Law and Governance at the University of Copenhagen.

On Monday and Tuesday I will be at the Interdisciplinary workshop on Green Public Procurement presenting what is quickly becoming my stump speech - sorry, working paper - on green procurement. This time I will be focusing on the critique around efficiency and efficacy and the multiple objectives trap. This is a free event but prior registration is necessary.

On Wednesday, I will take part at the Green Procurement Mornings seminar 13 focused on green procurement in different EU member States where I will be talking about Portugal. This is a free hybrid event so you can join us online as well.

Looking at the procurement angle of the Letta report

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If it quacks like a duck...

I mentioned a couple of times in this blog that the 2021 reform to the Portuguese Public Contracts Code implemented some questionable choices under the guise of facilitating the award of contracts to make the most of the Recovery and Resilience Facility. However, until now I had not noticed what

A bird’s eye view about the Procurement Act 2023 philosophy

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Portugal: analysing procurement proposals of parties manifestos (IV)

For this final entry into the ongoing series about the party manifestos for the upcoming Portuguese general election this Sunday we will be looking into the two smallest parties in parliament: PAN (Greens/European Free Alliance) and Livre (Greens/European Free Alliance). PAN (Greens/European Free Alliance) PAN has three

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Looking at the procurement angle of the Letta report

If it quacks like a duck...

A bird’s eye view about the Procurement Act 2023 philosophy

Portugal: analysing procurement proposals of parties manifestos (IV)