Long-awaited methane recommendation on compliance in @energy.contexte.com today. www.contexte.com/eu/news/ener...

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Brendan Loper.

Happy ETS proposal day! You can follow the Commission press conference here, and keep an eye on Contexte for our reporting on all the details! audiovisual.ec.europa.eu/en

Full marks for this 👏

Wait, The Digger is ... a climate movie?

Infographic - Explained: The EU’s progress on meeting energy and climate targets ✍️ Jack Schickler et Nina Godart

Spain grabs a late goal to defeat Belgium 2-1 in a tense World Cup match and will face France in the semifinals. https://cnn.it/3TuvuCE

Made in EU policy proposals, as well as security measures, feature strongly in this draft proposal to review public procurement published in @contexte.com this morning . www.contexte.com/eu/news/ener...

From Contexte today and throughout this week: 🔍 Commission to refine rules to ban Chinese and other non-EU companies from public tenders, leaked draft review of the Public Procurement Act shows Heating and cooling covered in electrification action plan draft with Mariette Thom

⚙️ Got back to reporting on the Industrial Accelerator Act for Contexte in today's energy newsletter. 🤔 Readers will also find a helpful explanatory note attached to the Council revision that takes you through the changes EU countries want to make. Read more↘️

Former swimming coach George Gibney has been found guilty of sexually abusing four girls in the 1970s and 1980s. The jury delivered a verdict at the Central Criminal Court this afternoon. jrnl.ie/7088458

In @energy.contexte.com 🔍 Commission flags shortcomings in EU gas grid operators’ hydrogen requirement reports ( 🎩 Mariette Thom for a nice request for access) 🚰 Leak - Data centre sustainability redraft creates new nuclear category ( ☢️ Damien Genicot)

Incredible World Cup occasion tonight at the Azteca, can't wait to be there. But you can make your own minds up re the activities of FIFA's biggest sponsor, whose logo is everywhere & whose cash is driving much of the fun. Special report from Port Arthur, Texas: www.theguardian.com/football/202...

🔎 Ministers from each of Germany’s sixteen constituent states called on the Commission to ease the hydrogen rules by extending transitional additionality requirements until 2035, in a review due before summer. www.contexte.com/eu/news/ener...

📢 “It is simply irresponsible if the project applications keep rotting on the desks of our authorities for years,” said Renew MEP Anna Stürgkh. Grids package progress continues in European Parliament. Read more in Contexte lnkd.in/evNBM2qr

14-man Louth have beaten Monaghan to advance to their first All-Ireland senior football semi-final since 1957. the42.ie/7084157t

❗ Permitting, often the quiet side of the grids package, causing some issues in the Parliament negotiations. www.contexte.com/eu/news/ener...

James Joyce’s Ulysses is a novel unusually rich in smells: fresh bread from Rourke’s city bakery, “men’s beery piss”, Molly Bloom’s perfume, incense escaping through the window of a church Irish perfumer Meabh Mc Curtin has recreated 14 scents described in the book www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Leak - The Grids Package is beginning to take it’s final shape as EU countries ready their position. 📑 The draft general approach helpfully summarises all the changes to planning, permitting and finance rules. www.contexte.com/eu/news/ener...

France proposes three scenarios for major overhaul of EU’s diplomatic service

this is an insane, albeit not entirely surprising, story: An English police force has removed an officer from frontline duties and launched a criminal investigation over the alleged use of AI to “create evidential material in a number of cases”. www.ft.com/content/514b...

The wire, just now. Two minutes apart

Irish neutrality no obstacle to presidency’s EU defence agenda, says Dublin

Draft public procurement overhaul gets green light from scrutiny board

A Belfast, des manifestants bloquent les axes routiers et incendient des véhicules, au lendemain d’une attaque au couteau imputée à un réfugié soudanais

The Commission wants member states to ensure “electricity is taxed more favourably than gas,” according to a draft proposal published by Contexte.

Rusal, the company that owns the Co Limerick industrial plant Aughinish Alumina, continues to be controlled by sanctioned Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, according to a confidential report by Swedish tax authorities. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

🔍 I had a closer look for @energy.contexte.com at the issues troubling civil society and the oil and gas industry in the methane regulation and the commission’s approach to solving them. Check it out ⤵️ www.contexte.com/eu/article/e...

Je erfolgreicher sie werde, desto feindseliger würden die Bodyshaming-Kommentare gegen sie, sagt Sängerin CMAT und beschreibt, wie sehr sie das belastet. Zuspruch erhält sie dafür von einer britischen Showbusiness-Veteranin.

In @energy.contexte.com 👀 This morning we published draft Commission recommendations for methane breach penalties. It basically offers a three-year grace period for member states, heavily framed in energy security terms following market disruption from the Strait of Hormuz closure.

❗Commission plans ETS orientation debate in late June, as it pushes back electricity action plan until 22 July, as previously reported in Contexte. www.contexte.com/eu/news/ener...

More details on why Czechia was the only EU country not to support a UN vote to reaffirm states' obligation in addressing emissions 👇 www.contexte.com/eu/news/ener...

And now, the lull. The Dublin Central outcome is now effectively a done deal. Galway West is a two-horse race between Seán Kyne (FG) and Noel Thomas (II), and will be decided on transfers… none of which we expect to see today. History suggests a *late* First Count, then adjournment for the night.

Story of the day on @contexte.com

Mónica Lisboa becomes Portugal’s deputy EU ambassador

Read @contexte.com's coverage here: www.contexte.com/eu/news/ener... And find the leaked questions they discussed here: www.contexte.com/eu/news/ener... Thanks to @sunderjourno.bsky.social for the on-the-ground reporting from Cyprus!

Don't underestimate what a huge defeat this is for the Trumpist project of destroying the EU and establishing ethnonationalism all over Europe. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/w...

EU leaders agree on the goal: A more competitive economy. But disagree on how to get there. As they gather at Alden Biesen today, the split over deregulation and reform priorities is front and center — and the Commission is feeling the heat. More in @contexte.com: www.contexte.com/eu/article/p...

En année préélectorale, Giorgia Meloni teste ses marges de manœuvre budgétaires vis-à-vis de Bruxelles

Also happy birthday to @energie.contexte.com 🎂 We're 1 years old today. 🥳 In our 231 briefings since then, there have been 1,857 briefs, 72 articles, 179 leaks. I'm looking forward to what we do next!

📣In more grids package updates for @energy.contexte.com 🔒 Broaden scope to fund resilience and protection of energy infrastructure, say six EU countries in new non paper 🫸 France, Poland, three others push back on Commission’s bid to centralise grid planning

Who should plan Europe's grid networks? I teamed up with @sunderjourno.bsky.social to look into the Commission's idea to centralise grid planning and why it is becoming a heated topic in debates around the Grids Package: www.contexte.com/eu/article/e...

In Contexte 🔍Cyprus wants Commission to do sensitivity analyses as part of grids package central scenario 🫸Cyprus explicitly excludes ‘final decisions’ on grid projects from tacit approval powers in permitting revision Read more about the central scenario debate ⤵️

Alonso thinks that Chelsea squad fits his ideology, as progress made No serious contact with Liverpool, with Slot still expected to remain www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...

European Green Party pushes for EU-UK relations reset

Danish coalition talks collapse, opening door to right-wing government

Arsenal are on the brink of a first Premier League title in 22 years after surviving a hugely contentious finale to beat West Ham 1-0, while Aston Villa were held 2-2 at Burnley on Sunday. u.afp.com/SRUE

What does the Iran war mean for EU energy policy? @jackschickler.bsky.social, Ciarán Sunderland and I tried to answer this in our live podcast recording. Watch it back on @contexte.com for all our analysis 👇 www.contexte.com/eu/article/e...

Wave of promotions at Brussels’ law firms

EU countries may consider the impact of fines that “materially reduce import volumes” the document seen by Contexte said. This would create “a Pandora’s box of exemptions”, said Flora Witkowski of Climate Action Network Europe. www.contexte.com/eu/news/ener...