EU ‘Green Label’ for nuclear energy?
By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, March 31, 2021
What position does nuclear energy have in the fight against global warming? A heated debate about this question takes place in the EU and many of its member states
EU nations scold Commission on plans to exclude UK from research groups
By: EBR | Wednesday, March 31, 2021
A contingent of EU nations has locked horns with the European Commission over plans to exclude third-countries from involvement in quantum and space research projects, in a move that could see the UK’s involvement significantly downgraded due to concerns over intellectual property
How the European Commission is underselling climate action
By: EBR | Wednesday, March 31, 2021
A blanket 10% rate of interest on borrowing is being assumed for the European Commission’s upcoming 2030 package of climate and energy laws
The UK and the EU Are Dancing for a Relationship
By: EBR | Wednesday, March 31, 2021
The loud boasts of defiance by the British government toward the EU have given way to the quieter language of negotiation. The outcome will determine just how much post-Brexit sovereignty London will have
EU SMEs in bid for greater interoperability in Digital Markets Act
By: EBR | Tuesday, March 30, 2021
Forty pan-European tech companies have penned a letter to MEPs calling for support for bolstered interoperability requirements in the Digital Markets Act (DMA) while stressing the importance of keeping the rules aligned to developments in the area across EU nations
Poland, others step up push for gas in EU green finance rules: document
By: EBR | Tuesday, March 30, 2021
Poland, Bulgaria and seven other countries have stepped up their push to ensure natural gas is classed as a sustainable investment under EU finance rules, warning Brussels its latest proposal falls short
Is an EU directive killing the oldest newspaper in the world: the Wiener Zeitung?
By: EBR | Monday, March 29, 2021
The oldest daily newspaper in the world still publishing, the ‘Wiener Zeitung’, is in danger of being closed down
Merkel’s Fall from Grace
By: EBR | Monday, March 29, 2021
Germany’s long-term leading government party faces an uncertain political future
Pandemic upsurge hits Europe recovery hopes
By: EBR | Monday, March 29, 2021
An upsurge in new coronavirus cases is forcing governments across Europe into new, damaging lockdowns that threaten to delay a much hoped-for return to growth
MEPs demand safe and clean travel
By: EBR | Friday, March 26, 2021
EU criteria for safe and clean travel, a common vaccination certificate and an EU hygiene seal for businesses must be part of a new EU strategy on tourism, MEPs say
European Leaders Are Facing Their Armageddon
By: EBR | Friday, March 26, 2021
Europe’s messy handling of the second and third waves of the coronavirus pandemic and the stalling of vaccination programs highlight the EU’s deep contradictions. The union’s ability to bounce back—let alone bounce back better—is now in question
European political parties play a key role now and in the future
By: EBR | Friday, March 26, 2021
The Conference on the Future of Europe should not be a PR exercise but a genuine people’s convention to deliberate all the tough issues we face together and to hear what citizens expect from Europe
Commission on track for digital levy proposal by June
By: EBR | Wednesday, March 24, 2021
The European Commission is on track with plans to present a digital tax by June despite recent progress at the level of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
Commission seeks to calm fears over Europol’s decryption platform
By: EBR | Wednesday, March 24, 2021
The European Commission has issued assurances to MEPs that Europol’s new decryption platform will not be used to abuse data protection standards and will maintain closely guarded access rights over the data retrieved
Why Europe Need Not Fail Over Human Rights
By: EBR | Wednesday, March 24, 2021
The Biden administration is making the defense of human rights one of its foreign policy priorities. Other democracies, particularly in Europe, should actively support this shift
Why Europe’s role must be to lead the world out of coal for good
By: EBR | Wednesday, March 24, 2021
As European energy and environment ministers join their peers at the International Energy Agency’s COP26 Net-Zero summit, they must set the pace for the global phase-out of coal
EU to offer gas plants a green finance label, under certain conditions
By: EBR | Tuesday, March 23, 2021
The European Union plans to label some gas power plants as sustainable investments, after an initial proposal to deny them a green label faced a backlash from a group of 10 EU member states
European recovery sidelines the young generation
By: EBR | Tuesday, March 23, 2021
Despite being the most affected group by the coronavirus-induced crisis, young Europeans feel increasingly left out from the plans for post-pandemic recovery
The EU’s ’digital compass’ is no road map to success
By: EBR | Tuesday, March 23, 2021
This decade, according to the European Commission, is going to be ‘the digital Twenties’, with the EU recovering ground it has lost both as user and producer of the new technologies that are key to future wealth and prosperity. But how can it be achieved?
Report confirms SURE’s success in protecting jobs and incomes
By: EBR | Monday, March 22, 2021
Τhe Commission has published its first preliminary assessment of the impact of SURE, the €100 billion instrument designed to protect jobs and incomes affected by the COVID-19 pandemic
