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What's cooking in Brussels? Cuisine nucléaire

Taxonomy, hydrogen, the reform of the electricity market and now the green industry: Nuclear power is present in all European environmental and energy debates. France deserves most of the credit for this. Because for Paris, the stakes are colossal.

By Claire Stam

Industry: Europe's response to the IRA falls short

In great haste, the EU Commission has drawn up a package around the Net-Zero Industrial Act. From the point of view of the industries concerned, the proposals are a step in the right direction. But they do not see it as a genuine European response to the US Inflation Reduction Act.

By Till Hoppe

Macron pushes pension reform through

When France's Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne announced the decision to the National Assembly, she was booed: The controversial pension reform will be pushed through with the constitutional paragraph 49.3. The opposition and the trade unions do not want to accept this.

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CRMA: Commodity projects get priority

Yesterday, the Commission presented its draft for the Critical Raw Materials Act. Along the value chain, projects for 16 strategic raw materials are to be given top priority. Criticism has been levelled above all at the requirements for strengthening the circular economy.

By Leonie Düngefeld