Sustainable development has been established on an EU level as a strategy and some high-level political promises. In the present economic context, it is vital that a holistic approach to the green growth paradigm must be adopted. Nevertheless, the EU's energy, resource and environmental policies as well as development policy must be coordinated so as to ensure maximum possible coherence. The purpose of this paper is to briefly present the importance of sustainable development implementation and also to evaluate the EU real capabilities in supporting this agenda. Introductory part is giving an overview on this topic while trends of sustainable developments are presented in the EU framework furthermore.

The endless financial crisis that struck the global economy in the summer of 2007 seems to be without precedent over the last decades of economic history. The crisis has created deep implications and negative consequences for the world economy, being the result of a misinterpreted paradigm of liberalism and selfequilibrum in the private sector of the economy combined with an absolute public policy based on the idea that the state is beyond mistake and people judgments. Today we are still in an endless economic crisis, with a European Union weaker than ever, forcing us to analyze both the factors and the effects of the crisis, which is still spreading in this global world with serious economic, social and cultural implications.