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The impact of the EU’s flagship food policy, the Farm to Fork strategy (F2F), may spill over into Africa and, more specifically, on small-scale African farmers.

Green farming ambition is a hot potato ahead of EU-AU summit

By: EBR | Thursday, December 23, 2021

The issue of vaccine hoarding and African vaccine production is likely to dominate the long-delayed EU-African Union (AU) summit but both sides want to beef up cooperation on agriculture policy as well

Hydrogen is expected to play an important role in decarbonising hard-to-abate sectors like steelmaking, chemicals and transport.

17% of new trucks in 2030 will run on hydrogen, EU believes

By: EBR | Wednesday, December 22, 2021

Hydrogen has had a busy year, concluded at the European Hydrogen Week in December with the re-launch of the EU’s public private partnership and EU transport commissioner Adina Valean outlining her vision for hydrogen-based transport in the EU

“We have to support activists who defend freedom.”

Why Europe Must Boost Civil Society Support

By: EBR | Wednesday, December 22, 2021

Civil society is under attack in the EU’s neighborhood. To defend democracy, academic freedom, and independent thought, Europe should step up its assistance to repressed voices

Whistleblowers are obliged to follow a three-step alert procedure, including an internal alert, an alert to the authorities if no measures are taken internally within three months, and finally, if nothing happens, a full public disclosure.

All EU countries miss deadline to implement whistleblower directive

By: EBR | Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Not a single EU country has met the 17 December deadline for transposing into national law the whistleblower directive, meant to increase the protection of those who report breaches of EU law

Two stones support the European temple: the Judeo-Christian heritage with the idea of human dignity and the Enlightenment, with the intellectual effervescence that accompanied it.

Europe must fight to defend its identity

By: EBR | Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Europe needs to rearm its identity in the face of Islamism and cancel-culture

"Macron said that France’s outrage over the failed submarine deal with Australia would not lead to France leaving NATO and joining an alliance with Russia".

Macron’s world

By: EBR | Tuesday, December 21, 2021

French President Emmanuel Macron gave an unusually long interview to French media over the weekend with an intriguing part about Russia sandwiched between the usual stuff about domestic politics

The first calls for the Connecting Europe Facility Digital will be launched in early January 2022.

Commission to invest more than €1 billion under the Connecting Europe Facility for innovative and secure connectivity

By: EBR | Friday, December 17, 2021

The Commission adopted today the first Work Programme for the digital part of the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF Digital)

EU country leaders met in Brussels for a summit to discuss several issues, including soaring energy prices, but some member states – notably Poland – pushed the EU to curb volatile prices in the carbon market by limiting speculative activity.

EU energy talks dissolve over carbon, green finance fights

By: EBR | Friday, December 17, 2021

Talks between European Union country leaders on energy policy ended with no agreement on Thursday (16 December), as states squabbled over how to respond to record-high carbon prices and upcoming green investment rules

uilding a shared understanding of today’s security challenges must go hand in hand with strengthening democracy in the bloc.

Europe Needs a New Reckoning on Security and Democracy

By: EBR | Friday, December 17, 2021

Differing threat perceptions in Western and Central Europe combined with democratic backsliding risk creating dangerous fractures within the EU

The European Union needs to decarbonise the energy it consumes to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030 and become climate-neutral by 2050, and these proposals will help to deliver that goal.

Commission proposes new EU framework to decarbonise gas markets, promote hydrogen and reduce methane emissions

By: EBR | Thursday, December 16, 2021

Commission has adopted a set of legislative proposals to decarbonise the EU gas market by facilitating the uptake of renewable and low carbon gases, including hydrogen, and to ensure energy security for all citizens in Europe

The €1.85 trillion pandemic emergency bond-buying programme (PEPP) is the ECB’s main crisis-fighting tool, aimed at keeping borrowing costs low to stoke economic growth.

ECB plots stimulus exit as inflation looms

By: EBR | Thursday, December 16, 2021

European Central Bank policymakers will gather on Thursday (16 December) for a crunch meeting, as soaring inflation heaps pressure on the bank to wind down its stimulus just as a new coronavirus variant threatens to derail the recovery