New European Bauhaus bill now €1.5 billion www.euractiv.com/news/von-der...

Greetings from the Brussels New European Bauhaus festival (the movement which has swallowed €1.4bn to date) Recommended reading: my story from this morning www.euractiv.com/news/von-der...

"Many Chinese journalists working for foreign media outlets have had similar experiences of being "targeted" by the police. X, who worked as a Chinese assistant for several foreign media outlets, said that she and her colleagues were often questioned at their hotel rooms when traveling for work."

Every second weekend, some EU-related website is just totally offline/inaccessible. Sometimes its the Council, today it appears to be the ... Eurostat data browser EU IT people on the weekend:

To looksmaxx is to seek to become God

What if the trope of Europe's stagnating electrification is not true, actually? Why we may actually be living the electric revolution euractiv.com/news/the-ele...

Tragic: Sweden moves towards fewer bidding zones. What's next, Austria applies to rejoin Germany's unitary price area? www.di.se/debatt/nu-ta...

Europe wants its own Starlink. But it’s on course for five failures instead

XR have defaced Hamburg with an anti-LNG, anti-greenwashing protest

The global methane wars (how to count it) have just begun www.euractiv.com/news/ireland...

Top Green MEP quits Brussels

They killed the Zaventem Exki skip????

⬇️Got a peek at the latest EU Presidency compromise texts on the food safety simplification package (for @euractiv.com PRO readers) www.euractiv.com/news/exclusi...

The downfall of progressive politicians in the 21st century in a nutshell

"Ukraine’s hands-on experience is increasingly shaping European thinking on energy security, transforming the country from a recipient of support into a provider of practical solutions,” one Kyiv think tanker told me. www.euractiv.com/news/germany...

Me, with the Austrians (again), on the not-so energy crisis and why EU rules threaten to make it worse Notable mention: the case for green hydrogen deregulation at the end www.euractiv.com/news/intervi...

A look into Austria's careful threading of the illusion of neutrality in the face of widespread conflict and EU obligations Interview with Def Min Tanner, via @bjoernstritzel.bsky.social www.euractiv.com/news/viennes...

Hund beißt Mann, Arzt will Apotheke umgehen können

Look its time for the annual bog/Russia/climate story from the Baltics, last year Politico and the FT did it, whose turn is it this time round? (That being said, its still an excellent genre)

NEW: Whether you're German, a policy wonk or just a journalist, these think tanks have been hard to miss And now they are merging www.euractiv.com/news/europes...

In our latest on the negative impacts of electricity CBAM, I bring you Moldova -- which is being penalised for the gas power plant in its breakaway region Transnistria, its energy minister told me in an interview [€]. www.euractiv.com/news/intervi...

Our @elisabraun.bsky.social and @nicolettaionta.bsky.social delved into Chinese shippers, shipping culture, and the latest trend: Attalourné. www.euractiv.com/news/the-unl...

This year's solar industry shindig in Brussels was inadvertently overshadowed by the challenges of the booming industry -- and they are going all in on batteries to keep growing at their hitherto rapid pace My dispatch, no paywall www.euractiv.com/news/solar-l...

Nature is healing www.cleanenergywire.org/news/climate...

Joji (formerly known as Filthy Frank) has 27 million monthly plays on Spotify which is just wild to me on so many levels

The biggest ETS story ahead of the revision just dropped www.euractiv.com/news/brussel...

NEW: After working to integrate the Western Balkans into the EU's power market for two decades, the bloc is now undoing all that progress with its new new carbon border tax CBAM (€) www.euractiv.com/news/eu-powe...

We looked into this, too -- whence the difference? www.euractiv.com/news/europe-...

Story idea: an interview with the person who bought one of only twelve fossil fuel-powered cars in Norway last month.

Euractiv readers know: things are heating up at the International Maritime Organisation. Declan Bush argues its politicisation of the net-zero framework is a bad thing. I'd argue the IMO, which grants little access to the press, isn't yet politicised enough! www.lloydslist.com/LL1157005/Th...

NEW: EU envoys are set to endorse a global net-zero shipping accord ahead of a week of closed-door negotiations at the International Maritime Organization on Friday – a move that risks placing Brussels on a direct collision course with Washington. www.euractiv.com/news/europe-...

The market is healing

Frauen, die Opfer sexueller Übergriffe werden, sind vor dem Gesetz aktuell selbst verantwortlich, ihr Nein deutlich sichtbar zu zeigen. Nur können sie das oft nicht, aufgrund von Angst oder Schockstarre. Die Verantwortung muss endlich die Seite wechseln, nur Ja heißt Ja!

EXCLUSIVE: Brussels to host Taliban in talks on Afghan deportations

Back to EV posting www.euractiv.com/news/electri...

Brussels mayor denounces ‘terrorism’ after bombing rocks Saint-Gilles

The first part of Ursula von der Leyen's energy crisis package (to be presented next week) is already dead on arrival: agreeing the grids package before the summer. "Wishful thinking ... pure von der Leyen populism ... no chance," we heard from negotiators. www.euractiv.com/news/brussel...

LEAK: New crisis, same EU response www.euractiv.com/news/brussel...

Another energy crisis - another lack of unbiased, relevant, timely ENERGY DATA for policy-making: What is possible: The US Energy Information Administration, provides among many other series granular weekly! oil&petroleum data for: refinery production, imports, exports, prices, stocks, ... 1/4

"The world's most powerful horsegirl" -- overheard in the newsroom

If the birds dont win the race for the Euro this is not my EU I want to say "that'll cost you three kingfishers" to someone once in my life

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Da jetzt die dt. Wirtschaftsministerin ein Umdenken bei der Atomkraft fordert, würde ich gern auf mein längeres Gespräch im österreichischen Rundfunk letzte Woche hinweisen: sound.orf.at/podcast/oe1/...

Nikolaus’ drones strike <EU is always as dependent on imported energy than long ago Yes EU has cleaned its domestic generation of electricity BUT… Not electrified the rest of EU energy consumption: Still 60% of our energy is imported >🙈 | @nkurmayer.bsky.social www.euractiv.com/news/europes...

Good morning Europe, I wrote a thing about the absolute failure of reducing our long-standing energy import dependency via €1 trillion of renewables subsidies

Its Saturday and you have next to no lights on at night anyway