
EU gas reserves below 50%!
Gas reserves in the EU have fallen below 50%

Five years after Brexit: U.K. Prime Minister got a warm reception at EU Summit
By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, February 5, 2025
Five years after Brexit a U.K. Prime Minister was back in Brussels

How does the EU respond to a world with Trump?
By: N. Peter Kramer | Monday, January 27, 2025
Last week, the Big Question during the World Economic Forum in Davos was: what will be the EU’s answer to a world with Donald Trump?

With the promise of a ‘golden age’ Trump’s second era begins
By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Donald Trump got off to a flying start, announcing a new golden age for America

EIB fears ‘major reputational disaster’ due to Green Deal rules
By: N. Peter Kramer | Monday, January 13, 2025
The European Investment Bank, world’s biggest multilateral lender by assets, phased out all fossil fuel investments from its €500bn loan book and branded itself ‘the climate bank’

Hydrogen is becoming less and less green
By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, January 8, 2025
Green hydrogen held a double promise: it would be an easy solution to the climate problem that did not require major adoption and promised to make activities CO2-neutral
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UK’s biggest trade deal since Brexit
By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, December 18, 2024
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Macron, France and EU in problems
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The pontifical and pompous re-opening of the Notre Dame Cathedral, five years after the devasting fire, cannot conceal that France is sinking into an unprecedented political crisis

NATO and Ukraine: Waiting for Trump
By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, December 4, 2024
In anticipation of Trump, NATO can Ukraine only promise some more weapons at a crucial moment in the war with Russia

EU in disarray
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Border controls are the new normal in the Schengen area
By: N. Peter Kramer | Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Prime Minister, Michel Barnier, announced that France will control all its borders for illegal immigration from November 1

Commission’s new budget plan angers European Parliament
By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, October 16, 2024
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China hits back and starts with France
By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, October 9, 2024
Following the EU’s recent vote to go ahead with the Commission’s proposal for tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles imported into the EU, China is hitting back

Fate of new French government lies in the hands of Marine Le Pen
By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, September 25, 2024
The announcement of the new French government ended a 67-days wait, the longest in France modern political history

The new European Commission: the Von der Leyen court
By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, September 18, 2024
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Draghi : €700 billion more annual investment to be a global player
By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, September 11, 2024
A year ago, Mario Draghi, a former controversial European Central Bank president, was commissioned by the European Commission to carry out an analysis of the EU’s industrial competitiveness

Political crises in France and Germany weaken the EU
By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, September 4, 2024
While the EU is involved in a war with Russia and an economic showdown with China, France and Germany , the traditional axis of the EU engine, are in a deep political and economic crisis

An Olympic sunstroke for the European Commission
By: EBR | Friday, August 2, 2024
‘Thanks to the contributions of France and Italy, the EU remains at the top of the (Olympic) medal table (in Paris)’, cheered the European Commission

And Asia is the winner, again...
By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, July 31, 2024
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The autocracy of the European Commission presidency
By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, July 24, 2024
Now Ursula von der Leyen has cemented her second term as President of the European Commission, it is up to her and nobody else to distribute the commissioner’s portfolios