Europe

Industrial Accelerator Act: the EU Commission launches the “Made in Europe” plan

From Brussels – Today, Wednesday 4 March, the European Commission unveiled the Industrial Accelerator Act (IAA), one of the pillars of the new Clean Industrial Deal, designed to strengthe...

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz also threatens the fertiliser supply chain

Since Saturday, 28 February, three oil tankers have been bombed, a crew member aboard a Marshall Islands–flagged cargo vessel has been killed, and around two hundred merchant ships have been l...

US fossil fuel lobbyists infiltrate the EU Parliament to dismantle the Green Deal

from Bruxelles - An investigation is raising straightforward questions about the democratic stability of the European Union and the role of external influences in its decision-making processes. In t...

Piunti (CONOU): the revision of the POPs Regulation is detrimental to the circular economy

The most recent proposal to revise the European Regulation on Persistent Organic Pollutants (1021/2019 POPs) places a crucial issue for European environmental policies back at the centre of the deba...

Waste Water Directive and EPR: appeals by pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries rejected

The Court of Justice of the European Union has declared inadmissible a set of appeals filed by companies and associations in the pharmaceutical and cosmetics sectors against the extended producer re...

The Board of Whatever

World diplomacy reduced to a curtain-raiser. That's how one could sum up the first meeting of Donald J. Trump's Board of Peace, held on Thursday, February 19, at the Donald J. Trump United States of...

PFAS: inaction will cost the EU €440 billion by 2050

Four hundred and forty billion euros. That is the cost that European society risks incurring by 2050 if the current levels of contamination from PFAS, the so-called “forever chemicals”, ...

Leasys and EIB back €600 million push for Europe’s zero-emission fleets

Europe’s transition toward low-carbon mobility is gaining momentum with a new €600 million financing agreement between Leasys and the European Investment Bank. The two partners will contr...

Why the Citizens Energy Package is the key to Europe’s energy autonomy

Europe currently stands at a crossroads. It must address several imperatives: ensuring energy independence, security, and access to affordable, clean renewable energy. Europe’s last energy cri...

2026 will be a turning point for climate litigation

In 2026, the courts will be the new battleground for the climate crisis. This is not a metaphor: Ukraine is preparing to file the first claim for climate reparations in history against Russia, ...

Trump keeps digging the grave of transatlantic diplomacy in Davos

“Who the hell wants to defend a licence agreement for a piece of ice?” This may not be the most important sentence in Trump’s long speech in Davos today, 21 January, but it is perh...

Critical Raw Materials, the complex European challenge

Strategic critical raw materials are the Achilles heel of European industrial recovery. Commonly known by the acronym CRM, they are essential for the EU's competitiveness, as well as for clean energ...

Shared power, shared security: Nordic lessons for Europe’s energy resilience

Renewables are transforming Europe’s energy landscape, but the rapid green transition is testing grid stability. The Iberian blackout exposed the risks of ambition outpacing the system’s...

Cory Doctorow: “The creeping digitisation of society brings forth the enshittification of it”

He was the European Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation for many years; he’s on the front lines for digital rights; an essayist, science fiction writer, and one of the most influent...

Trump's aims for Greenland divide Europe and put NATO at risk

The United States has set its sights on Greenland, and the matter can no longer be dismissed as a far-fetched provocation, especially by the European Union. As White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavi...

Meloni, press conference marked by a pragmatism that suggests a slowdown

A three-hour-long press conference, forty questions. Giorgia Meloni picked the traditional start-of-the-year conference to discuss the latest foreign policy shifts by the US, explain the government'...

SMEs at the Core of EU Energy Efficiency with New EUSEW 2026 Award

The European Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW) is expanding its focus on small and medium-sized enterprises with the launch of the brand-new “SMEs Driving Energy Efficiency Award”, on...

Sèamus Boland: “Poverty is among the factors of political instability in the EU”

The European Union is increasingly under attack. To the east, a new Iron Curtain takes a hybrid and permeable form, with drones, moats and mined areas prepared to stop Russian tanks. To the west, on...

EU Delays Mercosur Deal as Farmers’ Protests Shake Brussels

The European Union has decided to delay the ratification of the long-negotiated free trade agreement with Mercosur until January, following mounting political opposition and large-scale protests by ...

Omnibus I, EU backtracks on sustainability

On Tuesday, 16 December, the European Parliament definitively approved the Omnibus I package with 428 votes in favour, 218 against and 17 abstentions, thus confirming the agreement reached on 9 Dece...