BBrussels Read More Brussels backs windfall tax on big firms to ease pain from energy crisis – POLITICO2026-04-09 This wouldn’t be the first time that EU capitals have raided the profits of energy companies to ease…
BBrussels Read More Brussels unveils emergency change to EU carbon market to prevent soaring prices – POLITICO2026-04-01 The measure announced Wednesday is a modest prelude to potentially much more sweeping changes to the ETS later…
BBrussels Read More Von der Leyen promises ETS tweaks in ‘days’ – POLITICO2026-03-20 They include an update to the so-called benchmarks that determine how many free-of-charge permits a certain industrial sector…
BBrussels Read More 14 things we learned at the EU leaders’ summit – POLITICO2026-03-20 “This ETS is a great success. It has been in place for 20 years and is a market-based…
BBrussels Read More EU leaders find themselves incapable of action despite wars so close to home – POLITICO2026-03-20 And that speech was about as far as it went. As Tehran pounded its neighbors, disrupting Europe’s energy…
AAntwerp Read More Big EU lobby groups exaggerated industry support for attack on carbon price – POLITICO2026-03-06 Merz jumped on the demands to suggest he was open to weakening the policy, comments he later rowed…
BBelgium Read More After years of resistance, leaders finally say EU should go at different speeds – POLITICO2026-02-13 With the bloc buffeted by multiple geopolitical crises, it’s starting to realize that it can’t come to grips…
AAntwerp Read More Von der Leyen and Merz clash over future of EU’s core climate law – POLITICO2026-02-12 “This system is implemented to reduce CO2 emissions, and at the same time to enable the companies to…