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Despite the European and the Brussels parliaments being a few kilometres of distance apart, the two institutions did not share ideas or best practices to design a deliberative democracy exercise.

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

The Spring 2022 Economic Forecast projects the EU economy to continue growing in 2022 and 2023.

European Semester Spring Package

By: EBR | Tuesday, May 24, 2022

Sustaining a green and sustainable recovery in the face of increased uncertainty

The data included in the report show that the EU has made progress towards most goals over the last five years, in line with Commission’s priorities in key policy areas such as the European Green Deal, the Digital Strategy and the European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan.

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’

"There will be many practical challenges in terms of information exchange between EU institutions and NATO, as well as tensions with some non-EU NATO members".

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

"The dominant truth about Johnson is that he is running scared. He cannot be sure he will lead his party into the next election—or even still be in office in six months’ time".

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

"The EU Justice Scoreboard provides invaluable insights into our justice systems and helps us place the focus where it matters most: ensuring that the rule of law is protected across the European Union...".

EU Justice Scoreboard 2022

By: EBR | Friday, May 20, 2022

Τen years of monitoring the effectiveness of justice systems

Minimum corporate tax rate of 15% for large multinational corporations.

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%

In 2021, 45% of the European Union’s gas imports and over a quarter of the EU’s imported crude oil came from one country: Russia. Only 22% of energy consumed in the EU in 2020 came from renewables.

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

Free allowances given to airlines to reduce their ETS costs would be scrapped under EU proposals.

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

Investments in energy efficiency, decarbonisation, sustainable transport.

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

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