The Commission is pushing ahead with uniform European company law and intends to present its initiative for the 28th regime by the end of 2025. This is stated in a two-page timetable for the EU Commission’s work program for 2025, which Table.Briefings was able to obtain. The 28th regime is intended to provide start-ups with […]
Outgoing Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson is to become a Fellow at Columbia University in New York. This was reported by the Estonian media ERR and Õhtuleht. The fellowship was initiated by former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Clinton heads the Institute of Global Politics at Columbia.Andreas Schwarz is expected to become Head of Cabinet […]
According to the EU Commission, the European Investment Bank (EIB) should extend its counter-guarantees to the production of solar technology. This is stated in the internal briefing book of the Directorate-General for Energy for the future Energy Commissioner Dan Jørgensen, which is available to Table.Briefings. The briefing book is a kind of collection of ideas […]
The increase in network charges has also alarmed the EU Commission. “In view of the expected burden on consumers, the current financing system, in which end consumers pay the bill via network charges, may need to be reconsidered.” These are the words of the Directorate-General for Energy’s July briefing book for the future Energy Commissioner […]
The municipal utilities association VKU is against calls for larger economic players in Europe, as Enrico Letta and Mario Draghi had advocated in their reports. This was also discussed with Germany’s deputy ambassador to the EU, Helen Winter, said the re-elected VKU CEO Ingbert Liebing at a press conference in Brussels on Wednesday.The municipal utilities […]
According to the regulatory agency ACER, the plans for the European hydrogen network are oversized. “You get the impression that everyone is acting according to the motto: ‘If you just build a lot of pipelines, then demand will follow’,” said agency head Christian Zinglersen on Tuesday at the most important industry gathering, the European Hydrogen […]
The Bavarian state government has spoken out emphatically against the division of the German electricity bidding zone. “Every company is currently considering how it can hold its own. That is why we must not experiment with the electricity price zone issue,” said Tobias Gotthardt, State Secretary in the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, at an […]
The first meeting of energy ministers under the Polish Council Presidency will take place in Brussels on March 17, 2025. Table.Briefings has also learned that the second Energy Council will take place in Luxembourg on June 16. There will be an informal meeting in Warsaw on May 12 and 13.The dates are still provisional. According […]
The meeting of the Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly can now take place on December 2 at board level. A few days ago, Bundestag President Bärbel Bas (SPD) canceled the meeting of the Assembly in December due to the upcoming vote of confidence in the Bundestag, which several CDU MPs had criticized. As Table.Briefings has learned, the […]
As announced, the Austrian oil, gas and chemicals group OMV is no longer receiving natural gas from the Russian energy group Gazprom. Gas supplies to OMV were stopped at 6 a.m. on Saturday morning, the Austrian regulatory authority E-Control announced. OMV confirmed the delivery stop. Nevertheless, gas is still flowing to Europe and Austria via […]