Electricity 2026 starts with a depressing figure: €30 billion! Thats the amount of subsidies Berlin alone is injecting into the power system IN ONE YEAR to stave off necessary structural reforms €11 bn in France, €3 bn in Poland Yet, reform to-do list is long www.euractiv.com/news/stop-ga...

Electricity 2026 starts with a depressing figure: €30 billion! Thats the amount of subsidies Berlin alone is injecting into the power system IN ONE YEAR to stave off necessary structural reforms €11 bn in France, €3 bn in Poland Yet, reform to-do list is long www.euractiv.com/news/stop-ga...

Small Wikipedia rabbit hole: while looking up Coalition on Compliance Carbon Markets, one of the COP30 outcomes, I noticed the Wikipedia site was a) expansive b) somewhat biased in the scheme's favour -- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Co... So I looked into who wrote it: user אלכסנדר סעודה 1/n

Europe talks. Iran kills

DJT may (sadly) actually be the protagonist of humanity

If you stop taking blood pressure meds, your BP goes up. We call that medicine. If you stop taking GLP-1s, your weight goes up. Scientists are calling it "weight recidivism"—a term for convicted criminals. Why is obesity still treated as a moral failure? #GLP open.substack.com/pub/overmatt...

NEW: Slovakia and Czechia are teaming up to fight the ETS. The Czech PM argued that the cost of emissions allowances in ETS1 had diverged sharply from projected prices, and called for a temporary pause of “four or five years” and a decoupling of carbon costs from electricity prices.

Shot -- chaser www.euractiv.com/news/brussel...

Most emblematic story of the new year yet Last year, Germans swapped 53 millions of their defunct D-Mark for Euros (2:1) More than two decades after the EU currency was introduced, findings in old houses and mattresses keeps up a steady flow

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

Power is back on as various groups quibble over whos to blame www.euractiv.com/news/power-r...

“Many church leaders agree that Europe is ripe for harvest," via @emmapirnay.bsky.social & @thomasmangin.bsky.social www.euractiv.com/news/ripe-fo...

Hard to take countries where the ministry for industry is also in charge of tourism seriously. Same goes for energy and... mining!

“The cornerstone of a sustainable arson campaign is reliable delayed ignition,” reads the opening line of a handbook distributed by a German far-left extremist group. How open-source infrastructure maps and easy-to-use guides on firebombs are fuelling attacks www.euractiv.com/news/sustain...

US seeks unpaid local interns at Greenland consulate as annexation threats loom

Last Rapporteur of the year. We’ll be back in your inboxes on 5 January! @eddywax.bsky.social

Good morning, I bring bad news for the EU's single most effective climate policy tool: the ETS, which is coming under fire from politicians worried about high electricity prices www.euractiv.com/news/why-ele...

5 Uhr morgens, Weihnachtsschlange am Charleroi (2 stunden moch) und Sicherheitshalber mit @rikefranke.bsky.social Eurocope ballern

Makes me hate bsky's shitty thread reader -- below are worthwhile musings on a dominant phenomenon in German politics: "partisan" experts

ETS rally continues

The new map -- and the Swiss hole www.acer.europa.eu/sites/defaul...

The "luck" of the Irish

Get rid of the Strasbourg seat !

What are the rules for political advertising on bsky

At least bsky still hits sometimes

Say hello to the new European Parliament majority

Holy shit FTAV is so good www.ft.com/content/9c8d...

In case anyone wanted to know more about the graph Sweden's Ebba Busch just showed at the #TTE I know at least five of you follow it!

“It’s not going to be a way forward to say to Swedish households: we’re now going to take billions of your money and put that into a grid system elsewhere,” Busch said. “Don’t steal money from Swedish households, that will not end well.” €: www.euractiv.com/news/brussel...

Just 14 energy ministers attending the Energy Council in Brussels today -- no ministers from the big five in attendance Need EU countries say anything more about how little they care for the grids package?

Pure banger!

Do you think Babis had to return his egg-trophy they gave him when he left EUCO last time

Pete Hegseth in a Pentagon restroom getting ready to kill some more venezuelan fishermen

"The Greeks call it the “Wow System”; think tankers say it is the bloc’s “North Star”. The European Commission refers to it as the “central scenario” – the first-ever whole-of-Europe grid planning exercise to show what the cheapest possible future looks like." www.euractiv.com/news/brussel...

Same headline. Seven years apart. 🤡 @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

Very dubious ruling! www.euractiv.com/news/sweden-...

Map competition 😌

Old ideas, new momentum! The highway map the EU hopes will get electricity prices down www.euractiv.com/news/how-bru...

Europe has 11 days to figure out how to do this, with Belgium's assent or without. www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

CBAM! ~90% of companies removed from scope in exchange for 1% reduced efficacy That being said, Jeromin is effectively engaging on a strawman crusade because he engages truthfully with the premise of simplification instead of reading it as a cypher for deregulation, no?

Whats in the grids package €: www.euractiv.com/news/brussel...

News from the European regas front: Belgium still up -- Germany, Spain and France stable -- Portugal down

Europe's Russian gas ban is "historic day", says IEA's Birol. Reminisces how it was once sought out to diversify from Middle East after oil shocks (which also saw his agency get created)

Dispatch from the #REPowerEu trilogue -- we have hit dinner break (picture is a spotted energy commissioner) -- no white smoke yet

Incredible alert for something we reported first on Tuesday last week and then again on uhh Thursday 😇

Did the EU's bureaucrat production factory misuse the bloc's funds? Police raided several premises today! Major scoop by our @eddywax.bsky.social and @elisabraun.bsky.social www.euractiv.com/news/exclusi...

"There’s a simple explanation for Weber’s greed: he thinks he can get away with it. Back in his native Germany, no senior politician could get away with such double dipping. Neither Chancellor Friedrich Merz nor Weber’s own party boss, Markus Söder..."

Of course a key challenge is that the benefits of single market integration are broad and diffuse, while the costs fall on narrow but powerful vested interests - from national insurance schemes to protected professions - that hide from competition behind national barriers.