What's cooking in Brussels
The Czech Council Presidency will focus on the European Union's energy supply over the winter. It is likely to continue as turbulently as it began.
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The Czech Council Presidency will focus on the European Union's energy supply over the winter. It is likely to continue as turbulently as it began.
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Alsatian choucroute on the menu: next Wednesday, MEPs will decide in plenary session in Strasbourg of what the taxonomy should consist.
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Yes, the EU Commission has stayed the course, with Commission Vice President Frans Timmermans and Environment Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius in a leading role. On June 22, they presented the proposal for a regulation to restore nature, which goes back to the European Green Deal.
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For a long time, Wandel durch Handel ("change through trade") was the unofficial slogan of the European security architecture. The war in Ukraine has ruthlessly revealed that the German government's long and naively negligent adherence to this principle has tended to rather bring about the opposite of peace and democratic progress in Europe. Now is the time to rebuild the European integration landscape on the basis of democracy and the rule of law.
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The EU is at risk of being left behind technologically. It urgently needs allies like the USA to stand up to major powers like Russia and China. However, it cannot submit to them.
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In two weeks the French Council Presidency will come to an end. In today's Opinion, Susi Dennison takes a look back at the points that have been redeemed and those that are still open.
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Two of the probably most pressing and important goals currently pursued by the EU are closely linked: To achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, the EU needs to massively promote the expansion of renewable energies. At the same time, this also factors into achieving complete independence from Russian energy supplies. However, both goals can only be reached if the EU pursues a plan for joint financing and does not leave the countries to fend for themselves.
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The oil embargo against Russia will not change President Putin's calculation, warns Daniel Gros. The decisive lever is not to limit imports, but to lower the price of oil. But this requires a significant increase in the production volumes of other countries.
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