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Social Climate Fund to help those most affected by energy and mobility poverty

By: EBR | Thursday, May 19, 2022

Parliament committees back setting up a new fund to help vulnerable citizens cope with the increased costs of the energy transition

"Due to COVID-19, economic activity in Central and Eastern Europe, the Eastern Neighbourhood and the Western Balkans contracted somewhat more than the global average of about 3.0% in 2020".

A wake-up call for the green transition

By: EBR | Wednesday, May 18, 2022

The crisis triggered by the war in Ukraine is putting the resilience of our economies to the test once again

"This new leadership team, and there are few more, is right now reshaping Europe and the West into a new form, the one we will observe and live in for decades to come".

Europe’s new leaders are coming from the periphery

By: EBR | Wednesday, May 18, 2022

The construction of a new European architecture is underway, built around the point of relations with Russia – and new European leaders are shaping a new form, one we will live in and observe for decades to come

“France and Germany are not delivering vis-a-vis Europe’s direction.”

The Franco-German Tandem Needs a Reboot

By: EBR | Wednesday, May 18, 2022

Putin’s war in Ukraine has shattered Germany’s illusions about bringing Russia closer to Europe. A change in Berlin’s approach to Moscow would benefit Franco-German ties and the entire EU

The Future of the European Farming Model research shows structural trends in European agriculture showing a speeding up decline of the overall number of farms in the EU.

EU study: CAP support for ‘couch’ farmers negatively impacts farm communities

By: EBR | Tuesday, May 17, 2022

Common Agricultural Policy support for landowners not actively engaged in farming has indirectly negatively impacted farming communities, at the same time as the EU continues to haemorrhage farms at an alarming rate, a new EU study has found

"Something is not true just because an NGO says it. Most of what they say about EU biofuels is false, misleading and damaging to EU climate, energy, and food security interests".

NGO biofuel claims are harming climate, energy and food security aims

By: EBR | Tuesday, May 17, 2022

Environmental NGOs have been quick to attack the green credentials of biofuels, with some calling for fuels from crops to be curtailed, but their criticism ignores objective evidence

Unemployment rates are forecast to decline further, to 6.7% this year and 6.5% in 2023 in the EU and to 7.3% and 7.0% in 2022 and 2023 respectively in the euro area.

Spring 2022 Economic Forecast: Russian invasion tests EU economic resilience

By: EBR | Tuesday, May 17, 2022

The outlook for the EU economy before the outbreak of the war was for a prolonged and robust expansion

"Russian aggression in Ukraine has fundamentally changed the context of EU neighbourhood policy. It prompted the three EU-associated countries – Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova – to submit their formal applications to join the club".

Eastern Europe’s experience can help EU’s future enlargement

By: EBR | Monday, May 16, 2022

As this year’s events have shown, hesitation about EU enlargement is short-sighted and potentially very dangerous. The bloc’s enlargement must be conceived of and executed as a geopolitical expansion

Geothermal power plant located at Reykjanes peninsula in Iceland.

Heating neglected in EU plan to ditch Russian fossil fuels, industry says

By: EBR | Monday, May 16, 2022

The European Commission is due to table plans on Wednesday (18 May) to break free from Russian fossil fuels but, apart from a renewed push for heat pumps, there are major oversights when it comes to decarbonising heating and cooling

"The prolongation of the Covid-19 pandemic, the dysfunctions in the production and distribution chains, the increase of prices in the energy sector and the military aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, with profound economic and social implications, will remain as some reference points for a very long time".

The European economies will take the real test of resilience at the end of 2022

By: EBR | Monday, May 16, 2022

The economic and financial context we are going through is full of challenges, being marked by exceptional situations

"The EU may not need a reimagined enlargement policy—the ingredients for a suitable one can be drawn from past experience and present debate—but it does need a renewed consensus on what its policy is".

Does the EU Need a New Enlargement Policy?

By: EBR | Friday, May 13, 2022

Ukraine’s membership bid has placed enlargement high on the EU’s agenda. The bloc must rethink the accession process to make it more effective while maintaining democratic and rule-of-law standards

“If other categories have no obligation to collect their own materials and use them again for recycling purposes, then the math don’t work.”

New EU laws risk promoting ‘downcycling’ of plastic bottles, industry warns

By: EBR | Friday, May 13, 2022

European Commission plans to include mandatory recycled content targets for all plastics in a makeover of packaging laws expected this summer risk derailing attempts by plastic bottle manufacturers to reach closed loop recycling, the industry has warned

"Close EU-Turkey cooperation in foreign and security policy vitally important".

Turkey Report: Persistently further from EU values and standards

By: EBR | Friday, May 13, 2022

Without clear and significant progress in EU-related reforms, Parliament cannot envisage resuming accession negotiations with Turkey, warn MEPs in a report adopted on Thursday

MEPs expressed their support for the Commission proposal to reach zero-emission road mobility by 2035.

Fit for 55: MEPs back CO2 emission standards for cars and vans

By: EBR | Thursday, May 12, 2022

Environment Committee MEPs are in favour of a pathway towards zero-emission road mobility in 2035 for new passenger cars and light commercial vehicles

While governments adopt welcoming rhetoric and give out humanitarian aid, street protests against Ukrainian refugees have been held in Central and Eastern Europe. However, positive attitudes toward them prevail in most countries.

Resentment for Ukrainian refugees grows in central and eastern Europe

By: EBR | Thursday, May 12, 2022

The welcome citizens of Central and Eastern Europe first showed Ukrainian refugees is slowly waning, especially in more pro-Russian countries like Slovakia and Bulgaria, where refugee “privileges” are being criticised, and comparisons to the 2015 refugee crisis are now being made

Manufacturers are already being pushed to build cars that emit less CO2, including electric vehicles.

EU lawmakers may push 70% emission cut on carmakers by 2030

By: EBR | Wednesday, May 11, 2022

The European Parliament’s environment committee (ENVI) is due to vote on mandatory CO2 standards for car manufacturers on Wednesday (11 May), with the possibility of calling for a 70% reduction target by 2030

"Today’s landmark guarantee agreement with the European Investment Bank will enable to finance the implementation of our Economic and Investment Plans for the Western Balkans, the Southern and Eastern Neighbourhood...".

European Commission and EIB sign an Agreement to enable further investments worldwide

By: EBR | Wednesday, May 11, 2022

European Commission and the European Investment Bank (EIB) signed an ambitious Guarantee Agreement through which the European Commission will support up to €26.7 billion of EIB financial operations

"While social enterprises can differ in their economic sector, their organisational structure, or the kind of social impact they pursue, one thing seems to unite them: The need for funding and the difficulty in accessing it".

State of play in social economy finance in the EU

By: EBR | Wednesday, May 11, 2022

Trying to push the social economy as a flourishing sector of the economy, the EU is using a variety of ways to overcome the tension at the heart of the social economy: How do you attract money to a sector that defines itself as not being about the money?