While some politicians go red in the face trying to make their contemporaries pay attention to climate change, others are trying to make political hay while the sun is shining.
Marine Le Pen accused the government of forcing ordinary people to suffer the heat.
An early version of the 2040 climate target aligns with a German proposal on limiting CO2 offsets, officials familiar with discussions say.
Marine protected areas will grow by around a third following government pledges at the UN Ocean Conference in Nice, Franceโs ecological transition minister said Wednesday.
Greenpeace said it “borrowed” the statue for its demonstration.
Spain has rejected claims that more nuclear power would have helped as recriminations erupt over last week’s outage.
Losing Almaraz would be a loss for both the region and Europe. Letโs not harm our competitiveness and energy security when they are needed most.
POLITICO guides you through the essential events of this year’s Paris Artificial Intelligence Action Summit.
Curious about how this fiesta of consumerism is impacting the environment? We have the festive details. Humbug!
Will this one last any longer?
For all the talk of revitalizing and greening Europe, company owners in Italy are being allowed to relocate their businesses abroad rather than modernize and adjust at home.
An agreement on the next EU executive will take blood, sweat, tears and a lot of backroom maneuvering.ย
Groans, moans, applause, scolding. It was more open-mic night than august debate.
Europeโs electronic communications operators have an essential role to play in achieving the EUโs ambitions for digital leadership, industrial competitiveness โ but the sector is also a driver for social inclusion and ecological transition.
National government blamed local authorities after at least 73 people died as heavy rainfall swept through homes, shops and roadways.
The Cabinet is the โmost right-wing’ in more than a decade.
Spainโs climate expert is poised to become the EUโs competition chief, net-zero architect and economic transformer โ all in one.
Everything you need to know about Ursula von der Leyen’s team for her second term.
Ursula von der Leyen appoints the socialist politician as her No. 2.
On a visit to Greenland, the European Commissioner for International Partnerships is seeking to secure the European Union’s interests in this Arctic territory rich in raw materials crucial for the ecological transition.
Spainโs green ‘socialist heavyweight,’ Teresa Ribera, is in talks about a role in EU industrial policy, disconcerting center-right politicians.
The pro-nuclear lobby in Brussels and the EPP are reportedly pressuring European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen not to appoint Spanish Ecological Transition Minister Teresa Ribera as her new climate commissioner, with speculations in Madrid …
The Spanish government has submitted the candidacy of Ecological Transition Minister Teresa Ribera to the European Commission on Wednesday (28 August) as Spain’s commissioner candidate in Ursula von der Leyen’s new executive, EU sources told Euractiv’s…
Catalans themselves have now decided to end the nationalist/independence majority in their parliament โ and we intend to listen to them.
Almost all the nominees have been put forward for the next top team of EU commissioners.
What we know so far about Ursula von der Leyenโs next top team.
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Teresa Ribera, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge of Spain understands the advantages of a multi-modal energy system encompassing renewable gases like hydrogen.
Spanish Ecological Transition Minister Teresa Ribera (PSOE/S&D) is confident she will join the next European Commission, headed for a second time by Ursula von der Leyen, perhaps in the climate or energy portfolio, she told the media.
The parliament spokesman of Spainโs centre-right Partido Popular (PP/EPP), Miguel Tellado, on Wednesday accused the ruling Socialist Party’s (PSOE/S&D) lead candidate and Minister for Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, of having committed an all…
The European Environmental Agency found Europe unprepared for climate change risks such as floods and heatwaves.
Spainโs Ecological Transition Minister Teresa Ribera, the lead candidate in the European elections for Prime Minister Pedro Sรกnchezโs PSOE party, clarified on Tuesday that any kind of political agreement with Italian Prime Minister and ECR group leader…
‘I would find it very, very good,’ Pascal Canfin, a centrist French MEP chairing the environment committee, told POLITICO.
Even before the European elections, maneuvering is under way for top jobs in Brussels.
Ecological Transition Minister Teresa Ribera, the lead candidate of Spainโs left-wing PSOE in the upcoming EU elections, urged EU citizens on Tuesday to mobilise to prevent a possible alliance between the European Peopleโs Party (EPP) candidate, curren…
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sรกnchez will likely be forced into another difficult government reshuffle, as Ecological Transition Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Teresa Ribera was appointed to lead his socialist partyโs list for the European election…
Spainโs minister of the ecological transition, Teresa Ribera, has been nominated to lead the centre-left PSOE into the European elections โ and likely become Commissioner afterward.
The nomination makes it likely she could become Spain’s pick for a post in the European Commission.
Spainโs ruling Socialist Party (PSOE/S&D) agreed on Monday to set up a federal electoral committee to coordinate its strategy for the European elections due on 9 June, although the formation did not reveal the name of its main candidate โ a top job…
Spanish Vice-President and Ecological Transition Minister urged EU countries to save the beleaguered Nature Restoration Law, in an exclusive interview with Euractiv in Brussels on Friday 12 April.
Spanish Ecological Transition Minister Teresa Ribera could be the lead candidate for the EU election list of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s ruling Socialist Party (PSOE/S&D), according to information from insiders, though a final decision will be t…
Doubling down on climate action and social justice, the restored trust in European democracy, and a proud Europe on the international stage: This is the vision set out by Spanish Vice-President and Ecological Transition Minister Teresa Ribera, the fron…
Addressing the inequities in our food system is essential to delivering justice for farmers and securing climate action.
The trip comes as Beijing seeks to reduce EU hostility over China’s links with Russia.
The man who might be back in the White House next year, Donald Trump, has caused huge alarm in Europe by saying that he mightย let Russia “do whatever the hell they want” against NATO allies that do not contribute enough to collective defence. Our gues…
Green groups “appalled” at “irresponsible” postponement of initiative.
2024 will be a busy year for French green policy, according to the broad outlines of the agenda presented by Ecological Transition Minister Christophe Bรฉchu on Wednesday (31 January).
โThey tried to emulate the far right to avoid the far right. At the end, everybody goes towards the far right,โ Teresa Ribera told POLITICO.
The contradictions in nationsโ attitudes toward fossil fuels were at the forefront of the talks in Dubai.
Sultan al-Jaber, the climate summit president and oil CEO, must help ‘identify how we can open this pathway,’ EU representative Teresa Ribera tells POLITICO.
Complex energy changes do not have to mean higher consumer costs or energy shortages if the right policies are backed by major investment measures.
A lithium mining project has drawn hope of economic revival in a region hit by deindustrialisation in central France but the project promoters are confronted with mounting anxiety from local residents and, in some cases, opposition from elected officials.
The gender-balanced ministerial team will have a hard time getting laws through a fractured parliament.
Biden and Xi will probably skip it, but the summit will have Lula, the pope and King Charles. And yeah, Rishi Sunak.
“An ill wind is blowing against ecology. It is in these conditions that we are approaching the European elections”, warns Marie Toussaint, MEP and head of the list of the French Greens (Europe รcologie – Les Verts, EELV) for the June 2024 elections, in…
