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"The balance of power in the EU would logically change, as would the strategies for the EU emancipation from the US. Unlike France, Poland and its friends attach utmost importance to the Atlantic relationship".

EU’s new borders

By: EBR | Tuesday, June 7, 2022

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has turned into a World War III of sorts, one that will result in major changes, including new borders in Europe, after which we are not sure that France and Germany will remain the largest and most influential countries in our union

The conference will set the stage for a fresh round of major United Nations talks later this year in Egypt.

Climate talks test global resolve on warming

By: EBR | Monday, June 6, 2022

Negotiators from almost 200 countries will meet in Bonn Monday for climate talks tasked with reigniting momentum on tackling global warming, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine overshadows the threat from rising emissions

The EU institutions are negotiating a proposal to boost the number of women on company boards.

EU urged to quickly adopt plan boosting gender equality on boards, as talks continue

By: EBR | Monday, June 6, 2022

EU lawmakers are working to strengthen the European Commission’s proposal to ensure that women fill 40% of non-executive board seats of listed companies, while campaigners call for a swift adoption of the text before the end of the French presidency of the EU Council

The EU had already reduced its emissions by 26% in 2019 and had achieved its 20% target before the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns started to impact emission levels, the EEA said.

EU overshoots 2020 climate target, records 34% drop in emissions

By: EBR | Thursday, June 2, 2022

The European Union slashed greenhouse gas emissions 34% below 1990 levels by 2020, overshooting the bloc’s target of 20%, according to official data submitted on Tuesday (31 May) to the UNFCCC

European diplomats said Hungary was refusing to give the green light as it rejected putting the head of the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill on the assets freeze and visa ban blacklist.

Hungary stalls EU sanctions over Russian patriarch blacklisting

By: EBR | Thursday, June 2, 2022

Hungary was holding up Wednesday (1 June) the approval of a new round of EU sanctions on Russia, including a ban on most oil imports, over opposition to blacklisting the Russian patriarch

“I think that the gas has to be in the seventh package but I’m a realist as well, I don’t think it will be there,” Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said on the second day of the summit in Brussels.

EU leaders downplay chances of rapid Russian gas ban

By: EBR | Wednesday, June 1, 2022

EU leaders played down the prospects of getting a ban on Russian gas in a next round of sanctions, after struggling to secure a watered-down embargo on Moscow’s key oil exports

"The Bundestag has insisted that the chancellery deliver heavy weapons—which it promised to do some time ago. The armament companies are ready to do so. But Scholz continues to block their delivery. Just as he blocks Ukraine’s ambitions to join the EU".

German Ambiguity Is Deciding Ukraine’s Future

By: EBR | Wednesday, June 1, 2022

Chancellor Scholz’s delay in sending heavy weapons to Ukraine is hurting Kyiv’s chances of preserving its sovereignty. It is also damaging Germany’s standing across Europe

It is in farming policy that climate spending is overstated the most – by almost €60 billion, according to ECA. Similarly, the climate contribution of spending in areas like rail transport, electricity and biomass tends to be overstated as well, the auditors said.

EU spending on climate action ‘overstated’ by €72 billion, auditors say

By: EBR | Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Spending on climate action in the EU’s 2014-2020 budget was “not as high as reported” in official documents

"Most deaths from poor air quality are centered in cities, where residents tend to live alongside dense traffic".

Cities aim to reduce car use in bid to eradicate air pollution

By: EBR | Monday, May 30, 2022

European cities are putting measures in place to reduce toxic emissions from vehicles in a bid to improve air quality and save lives

We as an industry consider this as a unique opportunity to achieve a quantum leap in the way Europe supports its defence technological and industrial base, the representatives write.

What it takes for Europe to become a credible security actor

By: EBR | Monday, May 30, 2022

There is a unique opportunity to achieve a quantum leap in the way Europe supports its defence technological and industrial base

"EU needs to decide whether to become a strong pole, defining the multipolar balance of planetic politics or to be reduced to a loose Union of small states, with limited leverage, which will inevitable be part of the spheres of influence of the new ’Great Powers’".

Europe in the new ‘PostWar’

By: EBR | Friday, May 27, 2022

During the past few weeks Europe has been experiencing a moment of transformation of its external environment and of itself

Despite the European and the Brussels parliaments being a few kilometres of distance apart, the two institutions did not share ideas or best practices to design a deliberative democracy exercise.

A vision to democratise Europe from Brussels to Brussels

By: EBR | Wednesday, May 25, 2022

In her closing speech at the Conference of the Future of Europe (CoFoE), Ursula von der Leyen made a historic declaration on the fundamental role of citizen participation

The Spring 2022 Economic Forecast projects the EU economy to continue growing in 2022 and 2023.

European Semester Spring Package

By: EBR | Tuesday, May 24, 2022

Sustaining a green and sustainable recovery in the face of increased uncertainty

The data included in the report show that the EU has made progress towards most goals over the last five years, in line with Commission’s priorities in key policy areas such as the European Green Deal, the Digital Strategy and the European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan.

Commission (Eurostat) publishes 2022 report on Sustainable Development Goals in the European Union

By: EBR | Monday, May 23, 2022

Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, published today the ‘Sustainable development in the European Union — 2022 monitoring report on progress towards the SDGs in an EU context’

"There will be many practical challenges in terms of information exchange between EU institutions and NATO, as well as tensions with some non-EU NATO members".

Rethinking the EU’s role in European collective defence

By: EBR | Monday, May 23, 2022

The EU’s response to the war in Ukraine shows that there is space for a European security provider in addition to NATO. The key issue is how NATO and the EU can complement each other

"The dominant truth about Johnson is that he is running scared. He cannot be sure he will lead his party into the next election—or even still be in office in six months’ time".

Boris Johnson’s Threat to Britain

By: EBR | Friday, May 20, 2022

Johnson’s reputation may be close to stellar outside of Britain. But back home, integrity, decency, and stability in Northern Ireland are being replaced by vested interests and short-term gains aimed at securing political survival

"The EU Justice Scoreboard provides invaluable insights into our justice systems and helps us place the focus where it matters most: ensuring that the rule of law is protected across the European Union...".

EU Justice Scoreboard 2022

By: EBR | Friday, May 20, 2022

Τen years of monitoring the effectiveness of justice systems

Minimum corporate tax rate of 15% for large multinational corporations.

Global minimum corporate tax rate: MEPs push for quick adoption

By: EBR | Friday, May 20, 2022

On Thursday, MEPs approved a Commission proposal implementing the recent international agreement on a global minimum corporate tax rate of 15%

In 2021, 45% of the European Union’s gas imports and over a quarter of the EU’s imported crude oil came from one country: Russia. Only 22% of energy consumed in the EU in 2020 came from renewables.

Is nuclear the overlooked solution for EU’s energy woes?

By: EBR | Friday, May 20, 2022

Following the Fukushima disaster in 2011, Germany sped up plans to shut down all its nuclear plants. Given the current energy crisis, such decisions should be revisited

Free allowances given to airlines to reduce their ETS costs would be scrapped under EU proposals.

MEPs aim to stick airlines with steeper carbon bill

By: EBR | Thursday, May 19, 2022

Lawmakers in the European Parliament’s environment committee have voted to include all flights departing from Europe in the EU’s carbon market while speeding up the phase out of free carbon allowances, a move that would force airlines to pay more to pollute