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“It’s going to be a huge political battle. The question is, when do we begin the battle?” said an EU official on condition of anonymity.

EU budget battle looms, as economy lifts out of crisis

By: EBR | Friday, September 10, 2021

European governments have spent hand over fist, despite ballooning public debt, to prevent the coronavirus pandemic from triggering economic calamity

"Brothers of Italy snatched the top spot when Salvini decided to support the ‘national emergency’ government led by former ECB head Mario Draghi."

Far-right parties lead Italian polls

By: EBR | Friday, September 10, 2021

The far-right Brothers of Italy party led by Giorgia Meloni and the far-right party Northern League led by Matteo Salvini are currently leading the most recent polls, with 21% and 20.6% respectively

"Sixteen years of calm rhetoric are coming to an end just as her conservatives face historic polling lows."

Merkel enters the ring

By: EBR | Thursday, September 9, 2021

Angela Merkel, the eternal chancellor. Calm, collected, and generally unwilling to debase herself in the political arena

On the import side, the EU has become the third largest importer after the United States and China, according to a report.

EU reinforces its leading position in global agri-food trade

By: EBR | Wednesday, September 8, 2021

2020 marked another improvement in the EU’s leading position among the world’s biggest exporters of agri-food products

The IPCC scientists are hopeful that if global emissions are halved by 2030 on the way to net-zero by 2050, then we can halt and possibly reverse the rise in temperatures.

It’s high time to make the EU’s buildings directive fit for 2030 and beyond

By: EBR | Tuesday, September 7, 2021

The make-or-break decade for deep cuts in energy consumption and carbon emissions has already begun, writes Oliver Rapf. Now it’s time to radically revise our legislation, in particular the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD)

"Sustainability requirements must strictly address human rights impacts, deforestation, forest degradation, and the conversion or degradation of natural ecosystems other than forests."

To stop deforestation, banks too must be reined in

By: EBR | Tuesday, September 7, 2021

A tough EU law on forest commodities must include both trade and the financial sector

"The EU’s ‘Fit for 55’ package, adopted on 14 July, saw the EU attempting to raise ambition on climate policies across sectors to meet the scale of the challenge set by climate change."

Coal mine methane: a missed opportunity for EU’s CBAM

By: EBR | Monday, September 6, 2021

The EU’s carbon border adjustment mechanism had an opportunity to include methane in its scope and act against sources of the potent greenhouse gas, but this was left out of the final published draft

“Member states indeed certainly have to engage funds in order to deal with the consequences of such catastrophes.”

EU considers debt relief for countries hit by floods, wildfires

By: EBR | Monday, September 6, 2021

The emergency costs related to this summer’s floods and wildfires could be classified as “a one-off” expenditure and therefore excluded from the calculation of EU countries’ public deficits this year

“The preservation of the autonomy and specific character of EU law precludes the Energy Charter Treaty from being able to impose the same obligations on the Member States among themselves.”

Energy Charter Treaty cannot be used in intra-EU disputes, rules top court

By: EBR | Friday, September 3, 2021

An international treaty used by polluting energy companies to claim compensation from governments who thwart their investments was ruled incompatible with EU law by the Court of Justice of the European Union

“Climate change is becoming more widespread, faster and more intense,” the scientists warned in a press release.

French minister calls for more ‘brutal changes’ to address climate change

By: EBR | Friday, September 3, 2021

To get on the right track of the aspirations of the Paris Climate Agreement “the efforts will be harder, the changes more brutal”

Investing in efficient cities is increasingly recognized as fundamental to the economic recovery and growth of developing countries.

How to ensure no one is left behind by infrastructure development

By: EBR | Friday, September 3, 2021

Governments have begun to invest in the large infrastructure projects needed to reverse the diseconomies and congestion that characterise many African and Asian cities

"The suitable candidate should be considered competent, sober-minded, modest in style and a bit drab. All of that modulated by an occasional charming smile."

Olaf Scholz: The CDU’s Best Chancellor Candidate

By: EBR | Friday, September 3, 2021

If Germany’s CDU had used an executive search firm to find a successor for Angela Merkel as Chancellor, it would have probably come up with an intriguing proposition

“The ECDC and EMA need to be permanently strengthened, in order to coordinate the prevention and reaction plans for this and future epidemics together with national health agencies.”

Ahead of German election, parties split on strengthening EU health cooperation

By: EBR | Thursday, September 2, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted debates on stronger European health policy cooperation

"How to regulate hydrogen networks is one of the key questions this year as the EU implements its Hydrogen Strategy. It’s also becoming urgent."

How to regulate hydrogen networks

By: EBR | Thursday, September 2, 2021

The need to regulate hydrogen transport networks is becoming increasingly urgent, but legislation needs to be designed in a way to give the market flexibility to overcome the challenges ahead

"Under current legislation, advanced biofuels from waste sources such as used cooking oil and animal fats are counted twice towards road transport targets."

EU biofuel reform plan risks undermining waste-based fuels: industry

By: EBR | Wednesday, September 1, 2021

The European Commission’s proposal to halt advanced biofuels from being double-counted towards road transport energy targets would diminish the use of waste-based fuels in favour of cheaper crop-based biofuels

"The EU needs effective tools to defend ourselves when we face unfair trade practices."

An assertive trade policy: EU’s defence measures against unfair trade practices remained effective in 2020

By: EBR | Tuesday, August 31, 2021

The system for protecting EU businesses from dumped and subsidised imports continued to function well in 2020 thanks to the EU’s robust and innovative ways of using trade defence instruments (TDI)

"CAP is made up of two main items: direct payments to farmers, which together with market-related expenditures form the so-called first pillar, and support for rural development, which is considered as the CAP’s second pillar."

CAP deal lays ground for third ‘social’ pillar

By: EBR | Monday, August 30, 2021

The post-2020 Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform agreement struck in June introduced a new concept of social dimension that bears the potential to build a third “pillar” for the EU’s farming subsidy programme in the near future

Merkel’s trip to Moscow may well have marked the end of an era, as it has been she who time and again sought the direct contact to President Vladimir Putin amid steadily worsening EU-Russian and German-Russian relations.

The Message of Merkel’s Last Official Visits to Russia and Ukraine

By: EBR | Friday, August 27, 2021

The German chancellor’s legacy with regard to Russia and Ukraine is mixed, if not contradictory. Still, her successor is unlikely to show the same level of interest, commitment, or clout in their relations with Kiev and Moscow

Nord Stream 2 said the German court’s decision highlighted the “discriminatory effect” of the European Union’s amended Gas Directive.

German court says EU ‘unbundling’ rules apply to Nord Stream 2 pipeline

By: EBR | Thursday, August 26, 2021

The Nord Stream 2 offshore gas pipeline is not exempt from European Union rules that require the owners of pipelines to be different from the suppliers of the gas that flows in them to ensure fair competition

Leaders of the G7 major industrialised nations – Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States – met virtually to discuss how to complete the chaotic withdrawal and deal with the Taliban now that they have seized power.

At G7 summit, EU fails to extend the deadline for Kabul airport evacuations

By: EBR | Wednesday, August 25, 2021

At the G7 summit on Tuesday (24 August), EU leaders urged US President Joe Biden to continue securing Kabul airport until operations to evacuate vulnerable Afghans are completed past the 31 August deadline, apparently without success

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