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"The deadline has been postponed by a week and the reason is basically to give a bit more time to the platform to provide its views," European Commission Chief Spokesperson Eric Mamer told a news briefing on Monday (10 January).

EU delays deadline on green investment rules for nuclear and gas

By: EBR | Tuesday, January 11, 2022

The European Commission said on Monday (10 January) it has delayed to later this month the deadline for experts to give feedback on divisive plans to allow some natural gas and nuclear energy projects to be labelled as sustainable investments

“Existing nuclear plants alone will need €50 billion of investment from now until 2030. And new generation ones will need €500 billion!” Thierry Breton told the Journal du Dimanche newspaper.

Europe nuclear plants ‘need €500bn investment by 2050’: EU commissioner

By: EBR | Monday, January 10, 2022

The European Union will need to invest €500 billion in new generation nuclear power stations from now until 2050, the bloc’s internal market commissioner said in an interview published at the weekend

A founding principle of the European Green Deal is to improve Europe’s health and well-being by transforming Europe’s economic model.

The EU taxonomy is also about tackling chemical pollution

By: EBR | Monday, January 10, 2022

The EU’s green finance taxonomy is about more than climate finance, it’s also an opportunity to improve our health and well-being by phasing out polluting chemicals

A Eurobarometer survey published in March 2021 showed that nearly four in ten Europeans were exposed to content that they could not easily determine as being a political advertisement.

Political ads: Internal Market MEPs to start discussions on draft law on 10 January

By: EBR | Friday, January 7, 2022

The Commission will present its proposal on political advertising to MEPs in the lead Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee on Monday

Product and packaging design has emerged as a central question in a European Commission consultation on the revision of the EU’s packaging and packaging waste directive (PPWD), which is due in the first quarter of 2022.

Can packaging become climate-neutral?

By: EBR | Wednesday, January 5, 2022

Paper, plastic, tin or glass? As the European Commission readies a revision of the packaging and packaging waste directive, research highlights the positives and negatives of various packaging types

Italy is relying on almost 200 billion euros ($226 billion) in grants and loans from the EU’s recovery plan — money that is conditional on major reforms, including to the justice system and public administration, which Draghi has only begun to implement.

Does Draghi stay or go? Italy readies for new president

By: EBR | Wednesday, January 5, 2022

Italy’s parliament will start voting on January 24 for a new president, with Prime Minister Mario Draghi widely expected to take over despite the risk of destabilising the country’s post-pandemic recovery

“We did not choose the calendar,” Macron said curtly when presenting the priorities of the French presidency on 9 December, stating that this convergence was “the fruit of the implementation of Brexit”.

2022 : high expectations for Macron from both Brussels and Paris

By: EBR | Tuesday, January 4, 2022

Following the short-lived controversy that marred the display of the European flag on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, it is clear that the next six months of the French presidency of the Council of the European Union are shaping up to be a delicate political balancing act

European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde signs the new 20 Euro banknote in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 27 November 2019.

20 years of euro: The success and shortcomings

By: EBR | Monday, January 3, 2022

Although officially introduced on 1 January 1999, the euro became a tangible reality for most Europeans on 1 January 2002, when the first euro coins and banknotes were put into circulation

To ensure transparency, the Commission will amend the Taxonomy Disclosure Delegated Act so that investors can identify if activities include gas or nuclear activities, and to what extent, so they can make an informed choice.

EU Taxonomy: Commission begins expert consultations on Complementary Delegated Act covering certain nuclear and gas activities

By: EBR | Monday, January 3, 2022

The European Commission began consultations with the Member States Expert Group on Sustainable Finance and the Platform on Sustainable Finance on a draft text of a Taxonomy Complementary Delegated Act covering certain gas and nuclear activities

"The list of hopefuls is substantial, notably Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine, which have recently banded together to speed up their integration into the bloc. Tbilisi even announced it is planning to submit its membership bid by 2024".

Enlargement on life support

By: EBR | Thursday, December 30, 2021

Enlargement is stalled, and EU governments can barely agree on a common strategy to bring in the six membership hopefuls — Serbia, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Albania, and North Macedonia

"This lookahead for 2022 should be read with a cautious reminder in the back of one’s mind that the ongoing pandemic and the related economic fallout and inflation might quickly change policy priorities in the EU".

Fiscal showdown in uncertain economic circumstances

By: EBR | Thursday, December 30, 2021

The economic policy agenda for the coming year is packed with negotiations about EU fiscal rules, tax policies, minimum wages, and financial regulations

"Over the next six months, we will have a lot of very important issues to deal with at a pivotal moment in the construction of Europe," Ecological Transition Minister Barbara Pompili told EU environment ministers on 20 December.

2022: France’s strategic role in advancing Europe’s climate ambitions

By: EBR | Wednesday, December 29, 2021

France, set to take over the rotating EU Council presidency for the first half of 2022, will have a strategic role to play in advancing the bloc’s climate ambitions in 2022

“We strongly believe that packaging can and should actually contribute to mitigating the two biggest challenges nowadays in our view, which are climate change but also food safety and health and safety.”

Beverage cartons will only use recycled or renewable materials by 2030, industry says

By: EBR | Wednesday, December 29, 2021

Beverage carton producers have pledged to make cartons from 100% renewable and recycled material and cut down on their plastic consumption by 2030 to increase their sustainability and help meet global climate goals

“Digital is the make or break issue,” the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in her annual State of the Union speech in September.

2022: The turning point in EU’s digital policy

By: EBR | Monday, December 27, 2021

The EU’s ambitious digital policies face a moment of truth in 2022. EURACTIV takes a closer look at what is coming up

With clean energy and climate policy reforms, the EU "can actually address energy poverty at the core and get rid of it once and forever," said Adela Tesarova, an official at the European Commission’s energy department.

Europe ‘can eradicate energy poverty’ by quitting fossil fuels: EU official

By: EBR | Thursday, December 23, 2021

While EU member states provide financial support to poor households affected by rising energy bills, the European Commission is focusing on long term solutions like energy efficiency and renewables

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

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