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Meanwhile, the EU border agency, Frontex, reported 54,000 irregular crossings into the bloc in the first quarter, up a fifth from 2022. Twenty-eight thousand people arrived in the EU from the Central Mediterranean, a threefold increase from last year.

Worst migrant death toll in the Mediterranean since 2017, UN agency reports

By: EBR | Thursday, April 13, 2023

The first three months of 2023 were the deadliest since 2017 for migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean, according to data published by the International Organisation for Migration

While about 80 traffickers have been arrested this year, Karner said the number of asylum requests in Austria tripled last year to 108,490 applications when compared to the previous year, making it the EU nation with the sharpest increase overall.

Austria to request extension of border controls with Hungary, Slovenia

By: EBR | Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Interior Minister Gerhard Karner wants to apply to the European Commission to extend border controls with Hungary and Slovenia for another six months, the minister said on Tuesday

Based on a survey of 2.4 million respondents in the EU, the report looks at how cohesion policy affected income inequality between 1989 and 2017 in 231 European regions.

Cohesion funds increase inequality within EU regions, study finds

By: EBR | Tuesday, April 11, 2023

The EU’s cohesion policy, which aims at reducing regional disparities, benefits high-skilled, richer households more than low-income households and exacerbates inequality within EU regions, according to a recent study

The Commission recently noted the slowdown in Italy’s implementation of the National Recovery Plan but gave an overall positive assessment and granted the government an extra month to meet the targets necessary to release the third €19 billion tranche.

Italian MP: Meloni’s government can’t manage national recovery plan

By: EBR | Tuesday, April 11, 2023

The implementation of the national recovery plan is being delayed as Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s government struggles to solve the age-old problem related to the Public Administration spending funds from Brussels

The EU’s water governance strategy must be expanded beyond visible and scarce water resources. It should support the development of new governance paradigms that take a holistic view of water, and should seek to coordinate state and civic actors in an effort to rehydrate the Earth.

The EU’s Water Strategy Is Too Shallow

By: EBR | Friday, April 7, 2023

In March 2023, the UN held a conference on the future of water in a world increasingly affected by climate breakdown

Nehammer aims to make Austria less attractive to migrants, by cutting social support payments in a migrant’s initial years following their arrival.

Nehammer to team up with Nordics on EU migration transformation

By: EBR | Wednesday, April 5, 2023

Centre-right Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer has visited Copenhagen and Stockholm to bolster the three countries’ coordination on transforming the EU’s migration regime

Efforts within the European Commission to get the EU’s looming demographic disaster onto the political agenda are having to contend with widespread indifference, if not outright disbelief.

Wanted: An EU ’Ageing Agency’ to waken somnolent politicians

By: EBR | Tuesday, April 4, 2023

With any luck, a new EU agency will be born next year to focus politicians’ attention on the problems of ageing

Mixing CO2 with hydrogen can produce synthetic fuels, which – much like regular fossil fuels – is energy dense and fit for purpose in aviation and maritime shipping.

EU eyes CO2-hydrogen combination to make synthetic fuels

By: EBR | Monday, April 3, 2023

Experts say the two molecules of carbon dioxide (CO2) and hydrogen are the foundation of the EU’s future low-carbon synthetic fuel industry

Huge flows of cheap Ukrainian grain ended up in central European countries, affecting grain prices for local farmers, notably in Poland, Romania, and Hungary.

Polish PM demands EU takes action over cheap Ukrainian grain influx

By: EBR | Thursday, March 30, 2023

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki will send a letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen calling for immediate steps to remedy Polish farmers’ problems since the EU allowed cheap grain imports from Ukraine

The proposed legislation, the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act, focuses primarily on strengthening rules around data quality, transparency, human oversight and accountability.

The European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act, explained

By: EBR | Thursday, March 30, 2023

The European Union (EU) is considering a new legal framework that aims to significantly bolster regulations on the development and use of artificial intelligence

The Commission responded positively to a German proposal to create a new category of vehicles that run exclusively on carbon-neutral synthetic fuels, also known as e-fuels, according to Germany’s transport minister Volker Wissing.

German minister: E-fuels row ‘did Europe a great service’

By: EBR | Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Germany and the European Commission have moved closer to a deal on the future of the internal combustion engine, the German transport minister said

Von der Leyen responded after the first day of the summit, saying: “only the net-zero technologies that we deem strategic for the future – like solar panels, batteries and electrolysers, for example – have access to the full advantages and benefits” – which is not the case for nuclear power.

Paris plots response to von der Leyen’s ‘unfortunate’ comments on nuclear

By: EBR | Wednesday, March 29, 2023

The office of French Energy Minister Agnes Pannier-Runacher slammed European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s recent comments about nuclear not being “strategic” for EU decarbonisation

While the proposal has already been lambasted by Habeck’s liberal coalition partner, the business-friendly FPD, Habeck himself publicly speculated that a previous draft of the proposal was leaked to the press from within government ranks to gain a tactical advantage.

Top meeting postponed as Berlin government shows cracks

By: EBR | Wednesday, March 29, 2023

A meeting between Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz, government members and the leadership of the coalition parties to resolve differences including climate, transport and budgetary issues that went into the night Sunday was paused and postponed

The new Regulation for the deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure (AFIR) sets mandatory deployment targets for electric recharging and hydrogen refuelling infrastructure for the road sector.

European Green Deal: ambitious new law agreed to deploy sufficient alternative fuels infrastructure

By: EBR | Tuesday, March 28, 2023

The Commission welcomes the political agreement reached between the European Parliament and the Council to boost the number of publicly accessible electric recharging and hydrogen refuelling stations

In recent months, the European External Action Services (EEAS), the bloc’s diplomatic arm, has been working on updating its EU Cyber Diplomacy Toolbox, an initiative to coordinate a diplomatic response to malicious cyber activities.

EU institutions, member states in competition over cyber intelligence

By: EBR | Thursday, March 23, 2023

The European Commission and the EU’s diplomatic service are setting up two competing initiatives to collaborate with private companies on cybersecurity threats

The annual Health at a Glance report published in December 2022 by the European Commission together with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) rang the alarm bell on depression among young people in particular, which is more than doubled as half of young Europeans reported unmet mental health needs.

EU lawmaker: Mental health plan must address those ‘who suffer in silence’

By: EBR | Thursday, March 23, 2023

Pain management should be included in the forthcoming Commission’s mental health strategy to relieve those “who are suffering in silence”, according to a socialist MEP, Alex Agius Saliba

Under the law, which is being hailed as the most ambitious maritime fuel legislation in the world, ship emissions will be reduced by 2% as of 2025 and 80% as of 2050.

EU strikes ‘ground-breaking’ deal to cut maritime emissions

By: EBR | Thursday, March 23, 2023

The European Parliament and EU ministers struck a deal on the bloc’s flagship law to cut emissions in the maritime sector, marking a major step forward for the bloc’s plans to reach carbon neutrality by 2050

Deliveries have also been disrupted at the Port-Jerome Gravenchon site operated by ExxonMobil subsidiary Esso, which has had its production reduced according to the supply of crude from the Le Havre terminal, a company spokesperson said.

France requisitions refinery workers as energy strikes continue

By: EBR | Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Several French refineries were still blocked from delivering products after two weeks of strikes, disrupting production and power supply, while attempts to requisition workers at the Fos depot sparked scuffles with police

The plus side is that the EU has so far weathered the Russian energy crunch, and is at last addressing its defence shortcomings. But the debit column in the balance sheet is much longer.

Where to now? Ukraine’s war is eclipsing the EU’s internal woes

By: EBR | Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Although Ukrainians face a second year of misery, an uncomfortable truth is that the European Union has been having, as they say, ‘a good war’

In the state election of Lower Austria in January, the OVP came out first but fell 10% short of their previous election result, meaning they had to form a coalition. After the OVP’s negotiations with the social democrats failed, the far-right, which came in second, seized on the opportunity.

Austria’s conservatives team up with far-right, again

By: EBR | Monday, March 20, 2023

The Austrian centre-right OVP of Lower Austria looks to govern with the far-right FPO, forming a right-wing government in the country’s largest state and setting the scene for the upcoming 2024 elections

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