After the climate conference in Glasgow, the Global South is in danger of no longer believing the promises of the industrialized countries on climate financing. This trust gap must be closed quickly, demands Susi Dennison of the European Council on Foreign Relations. She outlines ways in which the EU could meaningfully engage in the debate and explains the potential of green technologies.
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If the Green Deal is to succeed without the EU becoming increasingly dependent on third parties, it urgently needs to reform its state aid law, writes Michael Niese, managing director of the Wirtschaftsvereinigung Metalle, in his guest article.
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Previous federal governments have tried out several variants to better coordinate digital policy. With the traffic light government, a different approach with distributed competences is now being chosen again, without a clear leader. Many changes are good, but whether the promised departure will succeed? Stefan Heumann explains the new distribution of competences in the federal government.
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For an equitable structural shift away from fossil fuels, the enormous gaps in climate protection measures must be closed – between what is necessary for a 1.5 degree path and what is currently being done and planned. Jörg Haas and Lili Fuhr of the Heinrich Böll Foundation provide an analysis.
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Germany and France disagree on EU climate policy: from taxonomy to emissions trading to CO2 border adjustment. Götz Reichert of the Centre for European Policy (CEP) nevertheless sees potential for Franco-German compromises.
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The other member states have hidden behind the EU Commission and the ECJ for too long, criticises Piotr Buras of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR). This has only served to swell the crisis of the rule of law in Hungary and Poland. Now it's up to the governments to resolve the conflict.
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Victor Warhem of the Centre de Politique Européenne in Paris analyses Republican candidate Valérie Pécresse's prospects of winning the upcoming presidential elections.
By Timo Landenberger
Clearer foreign policy vis-à-vis autocracies, visions for Europe: The traffic light coalition has set itself a number of goals. But the resistance to the laudable new course is considerable, analyses Jana Puglierin of the European Council on Foreign Relations. The new government must therefore seize opportunities.
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The digital product passport is intended to bundle environmentally relevant information such as materials or repairability of a product in a digital system. If the capital goods industry is ignored in its conception, bureaucratic chaos could follow, especially for smaller and medium-sized companies, fears VDMA President Karl Haeusgen.
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The Green Deal is the most effective solution to energy poverty, writes Alberto Vela of the EEB. The combination of energy efficiency, renewables and efficient building renovation has the greatest potential to decarbonise the EU economy and protect citizens from volatile prices.
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