The French government wants to empower the European Commission to expand divisive made-in-Europe rules in the proposed Industrial Accelerator Act (IAA) to new sectors and products, amendment proposals obtained by Euractiv show.

Governments are uneasy with a European Commission proposal that would allow it to intitiate the blocking of outside investment into sectors key to the EU’s clean energy transition and planned re-industrialisation. www.euractiv.com/news/capital...

January-to-May sales of fully electric cars have rocketed by over 74% in the three years since the EU agreed to ban petrol and diesel models from 2035, but capitals are going round in circles, arguing over how far to roll back the zero-emissions standard. www.euractiv.com/news/electri...

Government delegates are set to debate abandoning a proposed target to increase the share of manufacturing industry to a fifth of Europe’s economic output by 2035, according to a draft negotiating text from the Cypriot presidency of the Council of the EU. www.euractiv.com/news/capital...

Brussels has publicly pledged a “full and pragmatic implementation” of legislation to reduce methane emissions, in response to the latest United Nations call to end all releases of the highly potent greenhouse gas. www.euractiv.com/news/eu-vows...

State aid data: European governments are pouring billions into renewable energy but remain reluctant to fund industrial decarbonisation projects instead. www.euractiv.com/news/capital...

A surge in the production of jet fuel by US and European refineries eases fears that the Iran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz meant a global kerosene shortage was imminent, the International Energy Agency (IEA) reports. www.euractiv.com/news/record-...

Capitals back down in eleventh-hour talks on air passenger rights

The EU proposal aimed at electrifying corporate car fleets faces a full-on attack from key lawmakers of the conservative @eppgroup.bsky.social, draft amendments seen by Euractiv show. www.euractiv.com/news/key-epp...

Governments are primed for tough negotiations over a proposal obliging them to make corporate car fleets greener, part of the European Commission’s efforts to drive a shift away from petrol and diesel vehicles. www.euractiv.com/news/corpora...

France and Germany are set to demand the European Parliament acquiesce to the reduction of statutory compensation for delays and cancellations to medium- and long-haul flights, a document seen by Euractiv suggests. www.euractiv.com/news/paris-b...

A seven-strong alliance including France and Spain is ready to fight to keep Europe’s push for electric cars alive in the hotly debated reform of CO2 emissions standards, a document seen by Euractiv shows. www.euractiv.com/news/france-...

The conservative European People’s Party (EPP) has declared it wants to reform Europe’s CO2 emission reduction targets for cars without relying on the far right, but has hinted it could do just that if the S&D, liberals, and greens refuse to accept its red lines. www.euractiv.com/news/epp-neg...

Industry commissioner Stéphane Séjourné has proposed a legal shortcut to the European legislators who want to expand the scope of the EU’s Industrial Accelerator Act (IAA) during a parliamentary hearing on Tuesday. www.euractiv.com/news/commiss...

The war in Iran and the impressive energy costs that stem from it seemingly aren’t enough to convince Brussels to hurry up with the publication a long-awaited electrification plan. It is now postponed from 10 June to 22 July. www.euractiv.com/news/brussel...

The EU’s fresh proposal to make the booking of complicated European rail journeys easier and more reliable, and in just one click, is a gift to travellers – but could be a major headache for the large companies that run the trains.

Travelling across Europe’s vast railway network is set to be made easier as the European Commission makes good on a pledge to ensure even cross-border journeys involving multiple operators can be purchased in one simple transaction. www.euractiv.com/news/brussel...

Europe’s corporate car and van fleets should become greener and more electric faster than the European Commission has proposed, the two socialist lawmakers leading the European Parliament’s work on a forthcoming regulation have said. www.euractiv.com/news/sociali...

The European Parliament’s joint lead negotiator on the Industrial Accelerator Act (IAA), Christophe Grudler, wants to abandon an approach to ‘Made-in-Europe’ rules that would grant official trading partners automatic equivalence. www.euractiv.com/news/parliam...

Europe should use the energy crisis triggered by the Iran war to accelerate to shift from petrol and diesel to electricity and renewable fuels in the transport sector, the EU carmakers' lobby says. euractiv.com/news/carmakers-demand-electricity-tax-cuts-to-boost-electric-car-uptake/

"Those who’ve fought to keep the world hooked on fossil fuels are inadvertently supercharging the global renewables boom"

The energy crisis triggered by the war in Iran “has made the economic logic of renewables impossible to ignore”, the top United Nations climate change official, Simon Stiell, told leading figures in international climate negotiations on Thursday. www.euractiv.com/news/un-clim...

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EU lawmakers have pushed back at a right-wing attempt to further delay or cancel the bloc’s new CO2 pricing system on heating and transport fuels, or ETS2, in plenary votes on Wednesday. www.euractiv.com/news/eu-parl...

An increasing share of European commercial vehicle purchasers turned to electric and plug-in hybrid powertrains in the first three months of this year, even as diesel engines’ dominance remained largely unchallenged. www.euractiv.com/news/eu-elec...

Record wildfires and heatwaves, long droughts and continued ice loss severely affected Europe in 2025, as a report released Wednesday highlights the real-world impact of climate change on the fastest-warming continent on Earth.

France is bringing a national roadmap to the Santa Marta conference on the transition away from fossil fuels in Colombia, the country’s environment ministry told reporters on Monday. www.euractiv.com/news/paris-b...

In an upcoming reboot of its aviation strategy, the EU will seek to shield domestic firms from undercutting by foreign airlines and producers, go all in on new technologies like autonomous aircraft, and make sure it is ready to resist international crises. www.euractiv.com/news/commiss...

The head of the European Investment Bank has publicly urged the EU to end its reliance on imports of oil and gas – as the lender approved €2 billion in financing for the bloc’s energy transition and “strategic autonomy”. www.euractiv.com/news/develop...

Europe experienced a run on electric cars last month as the war in Iran pushed petrol and diesel prices through the roof, new data from the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) confirmed on Thursday. www.euractiv.com/news/carmake...

The Commission announced on Wednesday a review of the highly technical – and hotly debated – rules defining ‘renewable hydrogen’, the feedstock used to make the synthetic fuels airlines are required to use in gradually increasing quantities under existing EU law. www.euractiv.com/news/commiss...

The Druzhba pipeline is ready to bring Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia through Ukraine again, possibly ending a major political spat that saw Budapest and Bratislava at odds with Kyiv. www.euractiv.com/news/druzhba...

The energy crisis emanating from the Persian Gulf has pushed London to go all-in on what Brussels has struggled with for years: cutting the link between the price of gas and electricity. www.euractiv.com/news/london-...

'Nobody expected them to like it': DG Comp chief on battling Big Tech www.euractiv.com/news/nobody-...

Almost 2,000 cyclists across Europe never returned home after setting out for a ride in 2024 – most of them killed in crashes involving motor vehicles, often cars. www.euractiv.com/news/too-man...

Talks will likely take place at a neutral venue – such as a hotel in Brussels – rather than on EU premises, and will remain strictly technical, with no political representation, to avoid any perception of formally recognising the Taliban government. More on @euractiv.com

The European Commission is keen to promote ‘low-carbon’ steel production, but its definition is far from a done deal – and is proving highly controversial. www.euractiv.com/news/concern...

The EU executive should not be able to suspend CBAM for specific goods like fertilisers, Mohammed Chahim has made clear in amendments that also call into question the future of CO2 cost rebates for industry. www.euractiv.com/news/parliam...

Possible shortages of jet fuels due to the war in Iran are a “primary concern” for the European Commission – and an occasion for airlines to further attack the EU’s climate policies. www.euractiv.com/news/jet-fue...

The European Commission has ruled out making any changes to legislation designed to force fossil fuel producers and importers to limit methane emissions, a potent greenhouse gas blamed for nearly a third of the global temperature rise www.euractiv.com/news/commiss...

Europe’s ability to fill its underground gas storage facilities in time for winter will depend on the availability of liquefied natural gas, an EU official indicated after a closed meeting on Thursday. www.euractiv.com/news/lng-sho...

Europeans should be “under no illusion” that the impact of the Iran war on energy prices will be short-lived, the EU executive’s energy policy spokesperson said on Wednesday www.euractiv.com/news/energy-...

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