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Energy 2024: haggling over infrastructure

European energy policy is expected to be shaped by four topics in 2024: Infrastructure, gas-fired power plants, the targets for 2040 and a new governance framework. The latter could determine whether the industry has a future in Europe.

By Manuel Berkel

Feature

Climate target 2040: European elections come at an inopportune time

Brussels will soon be switching to election campaigning. But before then, the EU Commission still has one major climate policy project to tackle: the climate target for 2040. Adopting and implementing it will be the task of the next Parliament. And it is likely to tick differently than the current one.

By Lukas Knigge

Heads (EN)

Siegfried Mureșan – Europe's finances at a glance

The Romanian was already living in the EU when his home country was still a candidate country. As an economic expert, Siegfried Mureșan has played a key role in shaping the EU budget for years.

By Redaktion Table

News

Weak lending to companies in the eurozone

After ten interest rate hikes by the ECB since the summer of 2022 and given a sluggish economy, demand for corporate loans is low.

By Corinna Visser

News

Gas companies hardly use Ukrainian storage facilities

European gas suppliers have only stored a small amount of gas in Ukraine for this winter – despite a much more extensive offer from the Ukrainian government. The effect on the security of supply is controversial.

By Manuel Berkel

Opinion

European poetry is not a strategy

In the European elections in June, young people aged 16 and over will be allowed to vote for the first time. Dominik Geier from the Young European Federalists calls for European education to finally become a compulsory task. The education ministers are relying too much on civil society.

By Experts Table.Briefings

News

FDP in the European Parliament reorganizes

Dortmund FDP politician Michael Kauch has replaced Nicola Beer in the European Parliament. There have also been some other changes among the German Liberals in Parliament.

By Till Hoppe