Happy 1st birthday to the #Draghi report! 🎂 In 12 months, we’ve seen: 📉 Lower climate ambition 🗑️ Scrapped safeguards & deregulation 🛑 Decarbonisation delays 💥 Dirty EU-US deals So much for competitiveness through sustainability. Does not sound like the green industrial policy Draghi called for.

Our protection is being sold for profits. Ahead of Von Der Leyen's 'State of the Union' speech tomorrow, 470 organisations are calling a stop to the EU's drastic deregulation spree on environmental protection, social rights, digital rights and climate policies back many years.

Verfrissend om de reactie te zien van @gregvanelsen.bsky.social en @yelter.bsky.social, mensen met kennis van zaken, op de opinie van Noels die de bal compleet misslaat met zijn oproep om industrieel beleid te nationaliseren. 1/2 www.tijd.be/opinie/algem...

Commission's proposal for the EU's next long-term budget leaves gaps in climate and nature. We need #MFF with: 1️⃣Horizontal mainstreaming targets and earmarking for climate and nature 2️⃣Better implementation of the ‘Do No Significant Harm’ (DNSH) principle 3️⃣Finance for a socially just transition

Every single budgetary decision from now to 2040 is vital for our planet. This one falls short on climate and nature — but luckily, this is just the start of the marathon called MFF. Read our reaction to @ec.europa.eu's first proposal for the EU long-term budget ⬇️

📢 Protect people over corporate interests! At today’s high-level event, civil society, trade unions and key policymakers are coming together to oppose the Commission’s dangerous deregulation drive that threatens vital social & environmental safeguards. Read our press release 👇 #RulesToProtect

❌ EU’s Clean Industrial Deal still falls short 100 days in. In @sustainableviews.bsky.social, our Senior Industrial Policy Coordinator Greg Van Elsen unpacks why the CID lacks the concrete action needed for real industrial transformation. 👉 Read the piece: www.sustainableviews.com/eus-clean-in...

🌱⚙️ 100 days in, the EU’s Clean Industrial Deal is still falling short of its promised results. With today’s ITRE vote and the upcoming Parliament resolution, there's still a need for a democratic push to get the Deal back on track for a green and just transition. Read our press release 👇

🌍 The EU's #2040Target risks becoming a patchwork of loopholes: backloading, carbon offsets, inflated removals & sectoral swaps. 📉 These aren't tweaks, they are dangerous shortcuts that undermine trust, ambition & global leadership. Read more:

Accepting international credits as part of EU climate targets would be detrimental to innovation and to many companies and investors counting on a reasonably high ETS price. www.politico.eu/article/eu-e... @ecfr.eu

Important article calling out that some in Europe wish to build on the authoritarian playbook and undermine civil society, and with it, democratic resilience...It doesn't only happen "over there". We need a clear resistance to these attacks also in Europe. euobserver.com/eu-political...

A quick calculation to cool down this hot take (sorry) total amount of extra tanks needed (recent Brueghel report) = 1400*50 ton/tank= 70K ton of steel. Total EU steel production ca 130 million ton. So you've got a burning lead market of 0,05% of total output.

The ‘critical minerals’ rush could result in a resource war - on.ft.com/4inWXO3 via @FT

Commission's "Strategic Steel Dialogue" seems more like a monologue, with no seat for civil society at the table. Transition to the green steel needs fair debate, not backroom deals. 📝 @chiaramartinelli.bsky.social & @patricktenbrink.bsky.social write at @euobserver.com ⬇️

⁉️Strategic Steel Dialogue kicks off today and civil society was supposedly invited. 🤬But guess if we are at the table? NO, WE ARE NOT! ⛔Corporate capture instead of ensuring public interest, climate action & social justice are at the heart of the steel transition. @ec.europa.eu

Who gets to decide on the #cleanindustrialdeal? That’s what NGOs are asking on the day that Von der Leyen presents her industrial plans and the #omnibus deregulation project in Antwerp, with @tychovh.bsky.social @gregvanelsen.bsky.social

🚨BIG DAY: Clean Industrial Deal, Action Plan for Affordable Energy & Omnibus package🚨 👍We welcome the commitments on the 2040 target, circularity and renewable energy expansion... 👎BUT beyond that, the package crumbles under scrutiny. ⬇️ Read more on our @caneurope.org reaction ⬇️

Pollution from Big Tech’s data centre boom costs US public health $5.4bn - on.ft.com/3QQR5Rz via @FT

📣 “Clean industrial” myths debunked While claiming they need 💶 for the energy transition, big industry is feeding shareholders the bulk of its profit pie. Read the new investigation by @somoamsterdam.bsky.social and us: friendsoftheearth.eu/publication/...

🚨 Big day for industrial policy in Europe! 🚨 Excited to see @caneurope.org position on the Clean Industrial Deal out in the world.🛠️🌍 #CleanIndustrialDeal 🧵

🔁 Europe must lead in climate ambition, and that starts with a strong framework and a clear long-term vision. @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu, the clock is ticking. It’s time to take responsibility and deliver! #ClimateActionNow #2040Target

⚠️Is regulation really stifling Europe’s economy, or just an easy scapegoat? The European Commission’s Competitiveness Compass promises to cut 25% of today’s regulatory burden claiming it holds back EU’s economy. Read more🔗 caneurope.org/regulitis-re... @yelter.bsky.social @gregvanelsen.bsky.social

🚨 Competitiveness Compass is out 🚨 Commission takes a big misstep by framing regulation as an obstacle to competitiveness. It is not the rules protecting people, climate & environment that hold companies back, but the lack of investment & high energy prices driven by the EU’s fossil gas dependency.

I enjoyed talking to Foresightmedia on what to expect from the #CompetitivenessCompass, 'the North Star' guiding EU policies over the next five year. Might need some serious recalibration, press statement tomorrow foresightmedia.com/story/sGZDVo...

For 30 years, the Single Market has been Europe’s tried and tested engine for competitiveness. Well, ahum #CompetitivenessCompass

'Going forward, strengthening debt sustainability through gradual fiscal consolidation should increasingly go hand in hand with safeguarding public investment and securing greater national ownership and better enforcement' = dear capitals, please spend loads of money #competitivenessCompass

good investigative journalism by @desmog.com.web.brid.gy www.desmog.com/2025/01/14/e...

‪ From Chips to Ships for America - industrial policy set to continue under Trump? www.ft.com/content/2184...

Energy markets doing great again 🤔 The high summer gas price is a reflection of traders “speculating that the government will intervene again and fill storages at whatever cost, even if it is unprofitable”, said a gas trader. www.ft.com/content/a288...

We don't need a capital strike but capital investments from the biggest carbon emitters. #arcelormittal. Steelmakers enjoyed the biggest chunk of free ETS allocations, made record profits, destroyed own capital with share buybacks in the billions.... on.ft.com/4eMQg5E