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
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
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
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
European Semester Spring Package
By: EBR | Tuesday, May 24, 2022
Sustaining a green and sustainable recovery in the face of increased uncertainty
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’
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
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
EU Justice Scoreboard 2022
By: EBR | Friday, May 20, 2022
Τen years of monitoring the effectiveness of justice systems
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%
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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



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