Summer break is over in Europe: In Brussels, EU institutions are resuming work this week, and important events are coming up in other European capitals as well.Today, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will give a keynote speech on European policy in Prague. He will speak about the significance that the “turning point in time” resulting from […]
Ms. Stremlau, for Europe to achieve its climate targets, gigantic sums of investment have to be raised. How well is that working out?The fact that we actually need a socio-ecological restructuring of our entire economy has only entered the minds of those responsible in the last year or two – and unfortunately, it has still […]
A growing number of studies suggest that 100 percent renewables-based energy systems can be achieved at low cost by 2050 or possibly earlier. This is summarized by a research project of 15 international universities, including the University of Technology Sydney, Eindhoven University of Technology and Lappeenranta University of Technology in Finland.According to the publication, the […]
In the transport sector alone, Europe can save one-third of its oil requirements by 2030, which would be enough to completely end its dependence on Russian oil. This is the finding of a study published yesterday by Transport & Environment (T&E), in which the environmental organization also recommends various measures for reducing oil consumption in […]
When Peter Handley, Head of Energy-Intensive Industries and Raw Materials, DG GROW, presented the first building blocks for the EU’s raw materials package in mid-July (Europe.Table reported), he did not reveal whether strategic raw materials stocks would also be part of it. The industry has been calling for political support for this tool since the beginning of the […]
The EU is seeking greater cooperation in international trade toward its goal of a circular economy. In bilateral trade agreements, which regulate around 40 percent of the EU’s total trade volume, the circular economy has so far rarely been explicitly mentioned. However, there is great potential with trading partners such as China, especially for plastics […]
Chancellor Olaf Scholz sees Germany in a leadership role in the EU. “We are very aware of the consequences of our decision for a geopolitical European Union,” Scholz wrote in an op-ed for the German newsletter Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, referring to the turning point in time after the Russian attack on Ukraine. “The European Union […]
In the dispute with Hungary over human rights and democratic standards, the EU Commission is increasing the pressure on Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government. On Friday, the Brussels-based agency decided to file a case with the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in connection with Hungary’s controversial law on the treatment of homosexuals and transgender people. […]
A quarter of the predicted European production capacities of battery cells could be covered by Germany by the end of the decade. This is the result of a data analysis by researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI in Karlsruhe. To do this, the experts took a close look at the […]
The EU Commission is pressing ahead with proceedings against Warsaw in the Polish rule of law dispute. As the Brussels-based authority announced on Friday, it initiated the next step in so-called infringement proceedings against Poland. Poland now has two months to respond to the statement from Brussels and address the concerns.Otherwise, the Commission could take […]