
Digital Economy and Society Index 2022: overall progress but digital skills, SMEs and 5G networks lag behind
European Commission published the results of the 2022 Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI), which tracks the progress made in EU Member States in digital

EU prepares public opinion for winter gas siege
By: EBR | Thursday, July 28, 2022
European Union policymakers have started to prepare the public for siege conditions this winter if gas supplies from Russia are completely cut, an effort to demonstrate diplomatic resolve as well as avoid panic later in the year

Net zero vision can deliver missing climate momentum for Europe
By: EBR | Wednesday, July 27, 2022
While climate action is stalling among political leaders, the world faces the disastrous consequences of non-intervention

Of Porsches and private jets
By: EBR | Wednesday, July 27, 2022
As Germans scramble to reach holiday destinations, struggling with overcrowded trains and cancelled flights, top politicians have been taking private jets, conspiring with luxury carmakers, and puzzling over the emissions of the government vehicle fleet

Long road ahead for carbon market reform
By: EBR | Monday, July 25, 2022
Amid an energy crisis, Russian gas cut-offs, and worsening climate change, EU negotiators face the mammoth task of overhauling Europe’s core emission reduction tool, the emissions trading scheme (ETS)

ECB proposes new instrument to prevent eurozone fragmentation
By: EBR | Friday, July 22, 2022
The European Central Bank (ECB) unveiled a new “Transmission Protection Instrument” (TPI) to ensure that the borrowing costs for euro area member states do not diverge as dramatically as to make monetary policy ineffective
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EU might get fooled by Orban, experts say
By: EBR | Friday, July 22, 2022
While the EU Commission is negotiating with the Hungarian government over the payout of the frozen EU recovery funds, local experts warn that they might try to fool the EU

Draghi resigns!
By: N. Peter Kramer | Thursday, July 21, 2022
The technocrat Mario Draghi has resigned as Italy’s prime minister, a year-and-a-half after he was appointed as unelected head of a unity governmen

Save Gas for a Safe Winter
By: EBR | Thursday, July 21, 2022
Commission proposes gas demand reduction plan to prepare EU for supply cuts

EU’s Continued Commitment to Ukraine Hinges on Germany
By: EBR | Wednesday, July 20, 2022
There’s no end to the doom and gloom. And it’s not only about what’s happening in Ukraine

Member states push to further loosen CAP environmental measures for 2023
By: EBR | Wednesday, July 20, 2022
The majority of EU agriculture ministers have confirmed the push for further flexibility on environmental measures in the EU’s farming subsidy programme in a bid to increase production and plug the gap left by the Ukraine war

Severe drought could cancel out gains in EU food production
By: EBR | Tuesday, July 19, 2022
Just under half of the EU’s territory is at risk of severe and prolonged drought, according to a new European Commission report

ECB fine-tunes new crisis tool against ‘fragmentation’
By: EBR | Monday, July 18, 2022
As the European Central Bank prepares to raise interest rates for the first time since 2011, policymakers hope to limit “fragmentation” in the eurozone, where borrowing costs faced by different members begin to diverge

Europe’s climate and energy strategy has become disturbingly bipolar
By: EBR | Monday, July 18, 2022
Brussels is pursuing overambitious and costly decarbonisation policies while national capitals are desperate to guarantee the necessary energy supply and struggle to keep gas storages full and the lights on

Parliament lawmakers raise e-fuels targets in bid to boost market
By: EBR | Friday, July 15, 2022
Lawmakers in the European Parliament’s industry committee voted Wednesday (13 July) to more than double the 2030 target for fuels produced from green electricity in the transport sector, a move aimed at bolstering the fledgling electro-fuels market

MEPs seek to extend funding for political parties beyond EU
By: EBR | Thursday, July 14, 2022
MEPs want to expand the remit of the law on European political parties to allow them to register and obtain funding in countries outside the EU, under a proposal adopted on Wednesday (13 July)

Report: Increase in emissions from coal comeback, ‘negligible’
By: EBR | Wednesday, July 13, 2022
Plans by four EU countries to place coal-fired power plants on standby in case of a serious disruption to their gas supply from Russia will only have a negligible impact on the climate

The EU needs to be the driving force for the SDGs
By: EBR | Wednesday, July 13, 2022
The European Union must be the driving force for reaching the UN Sustainable Development Goals, where progress has come to a halt or has even been reversed

Commission report shows young people most affected by job losses due to economic impact of COVID-19
By: EBR | Tuesday, July 12, 2022
Today, the Commission published its Employment and Social Developments in Europe (ESDE) review 2022

European Commission to transfer its bond issuance settlement to a Eurosystem-based infrastructure
By: EBR | Tuesday, July 12, 2022
The European Commission has today launched the process for organising the settlement of NextGenerationEU and other EU bonds through the payment and settlement infrastructure of the Eurosystem