While the recycling market for lithium-ion batteries is already booming in China, it is just growing out of its infancy in Europe. This is mainly due to a lack of investment, but high raw material prices mean that battery recycling could soon be profitable.
By Leonie Düngefeld
While Washington attempts to establish contact with China on many levels, Brussels is not really willing to talk to Beijing. Not even when the Chinese security advisor or the minister of defense are already in Europe for other meetings. This threatens to put the EU on the sidelines.
By Redaktion Table
In the deliberations on the AI Act, the lead committees LIBE and IMCO met in joint session and also asked the shadow rapporteurs from other committees to state their priorities. However, the timetable is sporting – and is likely to make finding a compromise more difficult.
By Falk Steiner
David Beasley, director of the World Food Program, fears a humanitarian disaster. The blockade of Ukrainian ports must be ended as quickly as possible in order to get the grain out of the country, he demanded in the EU Parliament. He rejected the EU's Solidarity Lanes.
By Timo Landenberger
The EU's new agreement with New Zealand should set new standards and thus save society's acceptance of free trade. At the same time Ursula von der Leyen wants to send a geopolitical signal.
By Till Hoppe
After the Environment Council, the players involved were all pretty much in agreement: After 2035, there will be no more cars that still emit CO2 – effectively a rejection of e-fuels and hybrids. But the readings the following day diverge widely – as do the reactions.
By Lukas Knigge
NATO adopted its new strategic concept at the summit in Madrid. In it, the alliance clearly defines Russia as a threat and, for the first time, describes China as a challenge.
By Stephan Israel
The Energy Charter Treaty allows foreign investors to sue states – and has drawn a lot of criticism as a result. At the end of last week, the 52 signatory states agreed in principle on reforms. In an interview with Till Hoppe, Michael De Boeck, a legal expert at the College of Europe in Bruges, sees real progress on at least one point.
By Till Hoppe
The EU environment and climate ministers discussed their joint position on some of the key legislative proposals of the Fit for 55 package until late into the night in Luxembourg. Shortly after 2 a.m., a package deal was finally reached that demanded a great deal of compromise from the member states.
By Lukas Knigge
Ahead of the summit in Madrid, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announces the biggest "general overhaul of the military alliance" since the end of the Cold War. The number of rapid response forces is to be drastically increased. The adoption of a new strategic concept is planned, in which China is to be mentioned for the first time.
By Stephan Israel
