In southern Europe, one-third of the population could suffer from water shortages in the event of global warming of 2 degrees. At 3 degrees, this risk would double. This is what it says in the second of a total of three sub-reports of the sixth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), […]
As part of a comprehensive new package, the EU also launched sanctions against Russian energy companies on Thursday evening. Affected is technical equipment for the development of new oil and gas deposits as well as for the maintenance and modernization of existing facilities. Since the annexation of Crimea in 2014, individual extraction technologies have already […]
A common position of the European transport ministers on the transport dossiers of the Fit for 55 package is still pending after the end of the informal transport Council. Progress has been made on the expansion of the Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Regulation (AFIR) as well as on the topics of air traffic (RefuelEU Aviation) and shipping […]
In a letter to EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, EPP MEP and Deputy Chairwoman of the CDU/CSU group in the EU Parliament, Angelika Niebler has called for improvements to the Delegated Act on the Taxonomy Regulation. Economic activities of the automotive supply industry and especially of suppliers producing key components and special technologies […]
Germany has belatedly determined how it will use billions in EU agricultural subsidies in the coming years. On Monday, German Agriculture Minister Cem Özdemir (Greens) announced on the sidelines of the Agriculture Council in Brussels that the federal government had submitted its CAP strategic plan to the Commission. With this, a legacy of the previous […]
The “Wissenschaftsplattform Klimaschutz” (“Climate Protection Science Platform”) assumes that the EU will not enact the legal acts of the Fit for 55 package as planned by the end of 2022. Realistically, enactment is not expected until mid to late 2023. That’s according to the first annual report of the science platform, which was presented on […]
The EU Parliament has approved a new toll system for trucks. On Thursday, MEPs in Strasbourg approved the plans already negotiated with EU member states. According to the plans, from 2030 no vignettes will be allowed to be sold that allow trucks to use roads for a certain period of time. Instead, the actual kilometers […]
In view of the sixth summit between the European Union and the African Union, there has been much talk in recent days of a “partnership of equals”: the EU Commission is talking about a partnership based on trust and common interests. Two continents working “hand in hand,” demanded Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in […]
An alliance of environmental and social associations and churches is calling on the German government to introduce a “climate premium” to ease the burden on citizens. At the same time, the CO2 price in the transport and heating sectors should be raised more quickly in order to have a steering effect – this would mean […]
The CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag is calling on the German government to support the establishment of a non-state strategic gas reserve to “make the energy system more crisis-proof”. This emerges from an as yet undated Bundestag motion by the opposition parties, which is available to Europe.Table. In it, the CDU/CSU calls for both […]