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How the energy platform could work

The price of gas must come down. That is why, starting next spring, the EU wants to collectively purchase a portion of the fuel and use it to fill the storage facilities for the following winter. Various models are under discussion.

By Manuel Berkel

Claire Stam

What's Cooking in Brussels – the EP building swap

Tartes flambées are on today's menu. Next week, the MEPs in Strasbourg will vote on the EP buildings. Underneath the administrative aspect of this vote lies an entanglement of political and national interests. A situation that only could only exist in the Brussels bubble.

By Claire Stam

Barley takes position with socialists

After four years, the European socialist party family meets again for a congress. A new party leader is to be elected. The big rising star at the meeting in Berlin is someone else: Katarina Barley.

By Markus Grabitz

Gas crisis: EU states converge on Commission

At an informal meeting in Prague, most energy ministers agreed to further efforts to save energy and strengthen solidarity in the event of a gas shortage. A joint gas purchasing program is supposed to be launched as early as next year.

By Manuel Berkel