Political life will return to the Élysée Palace in Paris next week: On Wednesday, the Council of Ministers, chaired by Emmanuel Macron, will meet. The president's goal is to put his camp in a favorable position for possible new elections.
By Claire Stam
The European Financial Reporting Group (EFRAG) is drafting new standards for sustainability reporting requirements. These requirements, however, would benefit the environment less than the consulting industry, as it would enable the latter to acquire new customers, according to VDMA’s Sarah Brückner.
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Officially, China is pursuing extensive plans to phase out coal, oil and gas. On closer inspection, however, these plans seem less than ambitious. In addition, the temptation to solve acute problems by reverting to greater use of fossil fuels is great.
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Europe continues to import metals such as nickel, copper, and aluminum from Russia on a large scale – from companies owned by oligarchs close to Putin. The EU and German government must stop these imports and drastically change raw materials policy, according to Michael Reckordt of the NGO PowerShift.
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Bloggers use imagination and wit to fool the omnipresent controllers of the Chinese censorship apparatus. Their often virtuous linguistic creations form a still unwritten online dictionary of Chinese protest culture.
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How would Germany's industry weather the reduction or even the loss of Russian gas supplies? Germany would cope, says Daniel Gros, member of the board and distinguished fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies.
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The proposal for an international Climate Club may sound like a rehash of previous climate policy strategies. But properly implemented, such a club could take social factors into account and thus avoid a crucial mistake from the past, according to Avram Alpert and Dennis J. Snower.
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China's renewed saber-rattling over Taiwan, galvanized by US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's visit to the island, is born of a need to maintain some control over the situation in the Taiwan Strait following steady electoral victories by Taiwan's pro-independence party. But while Chinese military action is unlikely at this juncture, an accidental clash is all too plausible.
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Nancy Pelosi leaves a roiled Taiwan Strait. In China.Table, researcher Zsuzsa Anna Ferenczy, former advisor to the EU Parliament, assesses the peril of the situation and possible EU responses.
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With the world beset by climate change, pandemics, and a shocking new war in Europe – to say nothing of mounting inequality and related social and political tensions – globalization’s defenses are in tatters. And China may well have the most to lose.
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