Tag : Brussels

Tag: Brussels

Commission proposes to strengthen the protection of the environment through criminal law

The European Commission has adopted a proposal for a new EU Directive to crack down on environmental crime, fulfilling a key dedication of the European Green Deal. The proposal intends to make protection of the setting simpler by obliging Member Stat...

EU endorses new climate, environmental protection and energy guidelines for state aid

The European Fee’s School of Commissioners endorsed on December 21 the new Tips on State help for climate, environmental safety and power (CEEAG). The CEEAG shall be formally adopted in January 2022 and will probably be applicable from that moment. “...

New EU framework to decarbonize gas markets, promote hydrogen, cut methane emissions

The European Fee adopted on December 15 a set of legislative proposals to decarbonise the EU fuel market by facilitating the uptake of renewable and low carbon gases, including hydrogen, and to make sure power security for all citizens in Europe. “Eu...

It’s time to rebrand or put the idea of a European Defense Force to rest

There are a couple of reoccurring points that come up across the EU water cooler and that is the concept of a European Protection Drive, commonly often known as a “European Military”. The concept of a European Military has its roots withi...

EU approves €3 billion Spanish scheme to support electric vehicles

The European Fee has accepted, underneath EU State help guidelines, a €3 billion Spanish scheme to help analysis, improvement and innovation (RD&I), as well as environmental safety and power efficiency measures of corporations in the value chain...

Croatian scheme to support electricity production from renewables gets EU nod

A Croatian assist scheme to help electricity manufacturing from renewable sources complies with EU State assist guidelines, the European Commission’s antitrust chief stated on December 9. “This €783 million scheme will enable Croatia to help renewabl...

Let us celebrate democracy and let us make it stronger

The eyes of the world’s main overseas coverage wonks have been all on Washington, DC, after President Joe Biden met with fellow democratic leaders on the “Summit for Democracy”. This was a key realization of his campaign pledge of 2020 and – co...

Support for frontline staff and volunteers is key to overcoming Europe’s fresh COVID onslaught

In some ways, Europe is way better placed to face up to its second pandemic winter. Although instances are surging across the continent and the new Omicron variant has sparked recent considerations, many nations have succeeded in somewhat decoupling...

Why Biden shouldn’t use the ‘Summit for Democracy’ to start more Cold Wars

On December 9 and 10, President Biden will host a digital “Summit for Democracy.” The gathering will deliver together leaders from 110 nations who work in government, civil society and the personal sector, with the officially declared function of cre...

COP26: call for more global climate action

On November 24, Members of the European Parliament debated with Fee Government Vice-President Frans Timmermans, and the Council Presidency, the Glasgow Local weather Pact agreed on the 2021 UN Climate Change Convention (COP26). Many MEPs described CO...

The ‘European Army’ scheme is just a cover for France to get back into the big power game

The thought of a so-called ‘European Army’ has come out and in of style in the Brussels bubble for about 20 years. After every international occasion the place armed battle becomes a risk, the viability of a pan-European army pressure is...

Commission presents tools to curb EU-driven deforestation and forest degradation

In the framework of the European Green Deal, the EU Commission adopted on November 17 three new initiatives to curb EU-driven deforestation, as well as new guidelines to facilitate intra-EU waste shipments to advertise circular financial system and d...

EU, South East Asia launch Green Team Europe Initiative to protect the environment

Through the third ASEAN-EU Dialogue on Sustainable Improvement, European Union Commissioner for Worldwide Partnerships Jutta Urpilainen launched on November 18 a Inexperienced Group Europe Initiative in partnership with the Association of Southeast A...

Is Lukashenko setting a new trap for Europe?

One can hardly imagine the misery of the refugees on the border between Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. Hundreds of individuals from Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, lots of them Kurds and Yazidis, are tenting in the woods in freezing temperatures with li...

Border pains: A set play by Belarus

Determined migrants sandwiched between the Belarussian-Polish border is a nasty quagmire. Additionally it is an impressively manufactured crisis. With threats to each EU and NATO borders on the middle of the state of affairs, an air of hysteria and a...