
The world is falling short of its climate goals
By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, November 16, 2022
Seven years after the Paris Agreement, in which government leaders pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in order to avoid the worst effects of climate change, they meet each other again in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt

Scholz: business as usual with China
By: N. Peter Kramer | Monday, October 31, 2022
In Beijing they will be delighted that German Chancellor Scholz will travel alone to their country

Car lobby wins: new EU emission standard not much stricter
By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, October 26, 2022
How many air pollutants can cars and vans with combustion engines in the EU still emit by the end of 2025?

European Commission wants dynamic price ceiling for gas
By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, October 19, 2022
High energy prices are causing difficulties across Europe

No EU flags and one big spat in Prague
By: N. Peter Kramer | Tuesday, October 11, 2022
According to the Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala Europe needed space and time for an informal exchange of ideas

Does Germany cross a line?
By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, October 5, 2022
Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced a new €200 billion gas subsidy fund that will benefit big and small companies in his country

Liz Truss’s big gamble on the U.K. Economy
By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, September 28, 2022
Boris Johnson got Brexit done. Liz Truss faces the much harder task of making it work

Giorgia Meloni: Italy’s first female (and far-right) prime-minister?
By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, September 21, 2022
In Italy’s last election in 2018, Giorgia Meloni’s party, the far-right Brothers of Italy (Fratelli d ’Italia) scored less than 4% in Sicily, just behind what was garnered nationally

An extremely difficult road ahead for Liz Truss
By: N. Peter Kramer | Monday, September 12, 2022
Few new British prime ministers has as many crises on their plate from day one as Liz Truss

Putin’s tactic is transparent but no less dangerous!
By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, September 7, 2022
The winter of 2022 threatens to become a dangerous period of energy perils, unpredictable political frustrations and social discontent

The (once again) not united European Union
By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Leaders of eastern and Nordic EU memberstates have called for the EU to close its borders to Russian tourists

US Midterm elections: only three months to go
By: N. Peter Kramer | Friday, August 5, 2022
Until recently, Joe Biden struggled with the image of the weak leader who had to endure the doom and gloom of the world without coming to grips with it

A gas saving plan and the non-united EU
By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, July 27, 2022
The EU is aiming for a joint 15% reduction of gas consumption during the winter that is coming

The Climate? A concern for later
By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, July 20, 2022
‘Half of humanity is in danger zone

Zelensky attempts to whip up public opinion
By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, July 13, 2022
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky attempts to whip up public opinion against seaborne Russian oil exports, particularly the Greek tankers that carry big part of it

Xi’s warning on the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong’s return to China
By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, July 6, 2022
It happened, on July 1, in the shadow of the almost all attention attracting war in Ukraine

Winter is coming
By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, June 29, 2022
There is a persistent form of denial of the seriousness of the energy crisis, especially among Western leaders

French voters punish their President
By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, June 22, 2022
President Emmanuel Macron lost his absolute majority in the Assemblee Nationale

Ukraine: European unity under pressure
By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, June 15, 2022
Europeans have surprised President Vladimir Putin with their unity so far and decisiveness in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but now they fear seriously the economic pain of a protracted conflict

‘The EU has to deliver not only promise’
By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, June 8, 2022
Manfred Weber, a failed European Commission president and now president of the EPP, wants the EU to grant Ukraine (, Moldova and Georgia) official candidate status