European carmakers are cheering the massive business opportunities they foresee after EU ambassadors gave the green light on Friday to the EU-Mercosur trade deal, following a bruising year in which the industry was battered by Donald Trump’s tariff offensive. www.euractiv.com/news/carmake...

Interesting story by @nkurmayer.bsky.social here www.euractiv.com/news/europes...

Nobody wants to admit to caring about the climate anymore, and yet clean tech financing is booming, making a mint for investors. Trump is betting the future on a shrinking pot. The smart money is going green. Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Europe’s underground gas stores are at their lowest level for the time of year since Russia launched its all-out war on Ukraine, according to data from industry platform Gas Infrastructure Europe. www.euractiv.com/news/europea...

Danish soldiers ordered to fight back if US invades Greenland, Denmark confirms

Commission wants to commercialise open source for sovereignty

Shielding steelmakers from extreme global competition could prove unacceptably expensive for their European customers, an alliance representing producers of goods as diverse as cars and tin cans warned EU policy makers on Tuesday.

When will the EU stop bowing and defend its principles again? This isn’t leadership nor diplomacy. This is cowardice. We will all pay the price for it.

An interesting initiative 👇

After the EU rolled back the 2035 combustion engine ban, effectively offering a slice of the electric vehicle market to polluting technologies, one would have expected European battery producers to be up in arms. That didn't happen. Why? www.euractiv.com/news/why-are...

My analysis of the latest on the combustion engine ban: it's time to fasten your seat belt for a bumpy ride. Now that the European Commission has given up on its most symbolic Green Deal policy with a spectacular U-turn, the road ahead is going to be rough.

EU leaders will gather in Brussels tomorrow for the #EUCO summit, with a packed agenda including Ukraine, enlargement and the geo-economic situation in the EU. 🔴 Follow Euractiv’s live blog for up-to-the-minute coverage and expert analysis as the summit unfolds.

The European Commission has pulled a sharp U-turn, offering a reprieve to combustion-engine cars with a proposal to roll back a zero-emissions standard set to apply to new vehicles from 2035.

The Brief – Europe, it’s time for an intervention 

Ursula von der Leyen's small affordable electric cars will offer carmakers a boost in meeting emission goals / with @nicolettaionta.bsky.social www.euractiv.com/news/electri...

Rolling back the EU CO2 car emission rules would delay investment and put at risk production sites, Pedro Sánchez said www.euractiv.com/news/reversi...

Just hours before the European Commission unveiled proposals to scale back EU environmental regulations, the European Environment Agency (EEA) painted a gloomy picture of the bloc’s lack of progress towards meeting its own nature and climate policy goals www.euractiv.com/news/eu-drif...

The European nuclear industry appears to have persuaded the European Commission that untested small modular reactors (SMRs) can help solve Europe’s energy and climate problems. Environmental activists are not convinced. www.euractiv.com/news/climate...

Europe needs protection from its own allies, EU chief Costa says

Just in from @eddywax.bsky.social Europe needs protection from its own allies, EU chief Costa says www.euractiv.com/news/europe-...

As Trump goes on the attack, von der Leyen goes into hiding

Kremlin: Changes to US security strategy ‘largely consistent’ with Russia’s vision

Still waiting a reaction by @vonderleyen, @eucopresident or @kajakallas on the new US National Security Strategy and its aim to destroy the EU and its liberal democracies.

Car manufacturers and bad national policy have harmed the EU’s automotive industry much more than any European environmental standards, European People’s Party lawmaker Peter Liese told reporters on Thursday

EXCLUSIVE: Top Commission official Sannino takes early retirement amid EEAS scandal

EXCLUSIVE: IEA chief slams Europe’s ‘lazy, too laid-back’ energy policy

Former EEAS chief Mogherini, top Commission official arrested in fraud probe

European carmaker and trade unions are at odds over the possible introduction of made-in-Europe mandates for the automotive sector, according to separate position statements issued on Monday. www.euractiv.com/news/carmake...

The EU executive faces a raft of lawsuits as oil and gas companies argue the 2030 CO2 storage deadline is impossible to meet www.euractiv.com/news/big-oil...

"We're not fighting fossil fuels. We are fighting the emissions from fossil fuels," @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu said in South Africa

Europe’s dependence on Russia’s nuclear industry risks being only marginally reduced by a planned expansion of a major French uranium enrichment facility at the Tricastin site in southern France, with the company behind the project blaming Brussels for inaction. www.euractiv.com/news/expansi...

Brussels and Washington are still fully at odds when it comes to climate change and energy policy, despite the EU’s promise to buy hundred of billions of dollars of American oil and gas and ongoing work to pick apart Green Deal legislation www.euractiv.com/news/energy-...

Irreconcilable differences between EU countries over how to revise the bloc’s energy taxation rules mean a deal is out of reach, the Danish economy minister said on Thursday, making Copenhagen the latest in a long line of Council presidencies to concede defeat www.euractiv.com/news/energy-...

Way off track to meet ambitious production targets, the EU is looking to link prospective hydrogen producers with buyers

An EU scheme to kickstart a market for clean hydrogen by linking potential supply to demand went live on Wednesday as Brussels looks to open a bottleneck in the production of an energy carrier that could clean up steelmaking, aviation and shipping

Don't miss this today, by @hodgson.bsky.social www.euractiv.com/news/analysi...

The European Commission remains committed to the goal of simplifying cross-border travel by forcing railway companies to cooperate in a unified ticketing system, officials said on Wednesday while unveiling a new high-speed rail plan

The European Commission is considering a €500 million scheme next year to boost the production and uptake of synthetic sustainable aviation fuels (e-SAFs), according to a leaked document seen by Euractiv www.euractiv.com/news/commiss...

Insufficient climate actions and plans from governments around the world mean global warming is inevitably going to exceed the red line of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, probably in the next ten years, the United Nations warned on Tuesday.

The Italian ministry of energy security called the US Secretary of Energy “Allen Wright” in its statement on Minister Gilberto Pichetto Fratin’s work at the G7 energy ministerial meeting. The US official is actually known as Chris Wright – his full name is Christopher Allen Wright

The EU should require both governments and businesses to prioritise clean technologies in procurement and purchasing, forty-nine industrial lobbies, think thanks, and NGOs told the European Commission in a joint letter on Friday. www.euractiv.com/news/eu-clea...

We have to protect CBAM at all costs, US senator says www.euractiv.com/news/democra...

Don't miss this: Countries offered sweeteners in pursuit of EU 2040 climate bill deal by @nkurmayer.bsky.social www.euractiv.com/news/countri...

The assembly lines of certain EU carmakers could grind to a halt in a matter of days as companies run out of essential Chinese-made microchips, the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) said on Wednesday

“Whether on energy or raw materials, defence or digital, Europe has to strive for its independence,” said Commission President Ursula von der Leyen

5%! According to my sources, that was the informal deal yesterday that let the climate conclusions pass EUCO unbothered last night. www.euractiv.com/news/eu-to-b...

Awesome that every search engine and major social media site is forcing AI news summaries onto everyone // Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

The @delorsinstitute.bsky.social put out a cheat sheet to explain all things ETS2 – which is the new carbon pricing mechanism for transport and heating fuels institutdelors.eu/en/publicati...

The European People’s Party (EPP) top climate lawmaker Peter Liese, sees no contradiction in pushing for a very ambitious 2035 emission-reduction goal while cautioning against the European Commission proposal to cut emissions by 90% in 2040