€: Electricity market design clashes adds to trouble between industry and utilities (eternally at odds over one side wanting to pay less, the other wanting to charge more) -- leaders will be called in to help settle the score later this month www.euractiv.com/news/heavy-i...

Something something TTF mines

very funny to read this post in brussels where the discussion is literally converging on the opposite view

Yes the TTF is at €54 per MWh this week but have you considered that the EU gas crisis threshold is €180/MWh for six months?

Do you think handelsblatt and ECFR have the same illustrator

Logging on for another day at the TTF posting mines

Stuck in the Gulf or waiting for someone who is? Here’s what EU countries are doing to bring citizens home, why evacuations are slow, and what steps you should take now. www.euractiv.com/news/strande... @magnuslundnielsen.bsky.social @nicolettaionta.bsky.social @anupriyadatta.bsky.social

Trading in the US has opened

Told you it would be a long day of TTF-posting

I'm so glad Italy is not working on any policies to structurally increase gas demand

My latest for Energy Flux: 💥 Iran: US Energy Dominance laid bare 💥 Trump’s war of choice is a bonanza for US LNG exporters, and a catastrophe for everyone else Check it out 👉 www.energyflux.news/iran-war-us...

Good morning, signing in for the TTF-posting shift

Seit ein paar Minuten ist der Handel an der wichtigsten europäischen Gasbörse #DutchTTF eröffnet. Startpunkt ist ein Gaspreis von 32 €/MWh von Freitag Nachmittag. Die ersten Handelsgeschäfte heute wurden zu einem Preisniveau von gut 38 €/MWh abgeschlossen, ein Plus von gut 20%.

NBP front month gas price opens up in 'yikes' territory. Very hard to say whether this sticks as stuff like this typically moves hot and then cools a bit but still, that is a move alright.

Notably this misses the point that the Spaniards signed the E6+ letter ahead of COMPET

€: www.euractiv.com/news/draft-p...

Mercosur trade deal to be provisionally applied, von der Leyen says

@ec.europa.eu moves to extend EU roaming to Western Balkans 🇦🇱, 🇧🇦, 🇽🇰, 🇲🇪, 🇲🇰 and 🇷🇸 could join the EU’s free mobile zone @euractiv.com www.euractiv.com/news/commiss...

Ukraine's accession to the EU is now facing a crunch moment. EU countries are getting more and more vocal with their worries about fast-tracking Kyiv in. Meanwhile, Zelenskyy is getting louder and louder about the need to join by 2027. More in today's Rapporteur. 👇 www.euractiv.com/news/rapport...

K2.0 is such an empathic media project, great story -- obviously raises the usual caveats about insurance etc but also an interesting look at state capacity more broadly kosovotwopointzero.com/en/citizens-...

Ist eine teure Grüngasquote nicht einem CO2-Preis ähnlich?

The IEA? You mean the clean cooking organisation?

A story that conveys so much for so little text

Renew Europe feiert die neue niederländische Regierung schon ein wenig sehr

Hmmmm... Wonder if this means anything!

Of course Laurent Duplomb, the French ultra-farmer best known for his fights to legalise potentially carciongeic insecticide acetamiprid, is first generation agriculture... He married into the profession and landownership! -- via @alice.bergoend.euractiv.com www.euractiv.com/news/meet-la...

Do read our weekly Asia dispatch from our ace China watcher Christina Zhao -- what exactly are the many, many Beijing spies in Europe hoping to achieve? www.euractiv.com/news/red-thr...

Carbon pricing feuds latest: “The ETS 1 system has been in place for 20 years and is very successful,” Merz said on Wednesday morning while speaking on the Berlin politics podcast Machtwechsel. www.euractiv.com/news/germany...

Whos up for launching a Biedermeier exhibit in Moscow this autumn?

Call it urbanite Eurocore Christmas www.euractiv.com/news/how-fra...

EXCLUSIVE: Scandal-hit EU official Sannino returns to Italian foreign ministry

Reading this Bruegel paper is like a best-of from the last few years, including a mention of @bachmannrudi.bsky.social et al 2022 www.bruegel.org/policy-brief...

We're back to subtweeting von der Leyen I see

Love me a false binary created solely to attack the press!

Something incredible is happening in Spain

€ from the Belgian countryside www.euractiv.com/news/czechia...

“This Antwerp summit will be different than the one we had last year, and probably even bigger than the one we had two years ago,” explained Piotr Pogorzelski of Cepi, the paper industry association. www.euractiv.com/news/antwerp...

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Rock-solid average of 250 sales per book

Can't believe Vance at MSC was a year ago already

Join me in watching the downfall of an industry that is akin to sand in the gears of what could be a well-functioning EU (notably not sure how this affects the political economy around forthcoming trade deals) www.euractiv.com/news/frances...

Der VKU macht einen neuen Vorstoß um Kunden in seine lokalen Monopole zu drängen www.welt.de/finanzen/art...

Interesting stuff from Renew, explicitly picking a fight on bidding zones (and pressuring the Commission to get involved) www.euractiv.com/news/parliam...

Gazprom gloats about relatively empty EU gas storage facilities -- meanwhile, they aggressively try to sell what looks to be meagre progress on Power of Siberia 2 as meaningful diversification of customers...

Text-Bild-Schere aus der Hölle

Not a military jet expert but doesn't the two-track solution seem like a classic European fudge? www.euractiv.com/interview/ai...

€: Europe faces a climate reckoning amid slowing emission cuts (gas-heating resurgence & stagnant transport sector, via CREA) which put -55% by 2030 at risk -- throwing a molotov into current discussions on the post-2030 framework (call it Fit for 90 if you will) www.euractiv.com/news/emissio...