The menace of deindustrialization in the EU โ€” and what we can do about it

Policymaking is not accountancy: in the medium and long term, the EU will be better off keeping factories within its borders.

Europeโ€™s new normal: High energy bills, fading industry and one chance to fix it

German manufacturers are being strangled. The EU is feeling the pinch. Mario Draghi on Monday warned the EU may be staring at โ€˜slow agony.โ€™

The flip side of debt: The EUโ€™s urgent need for new resources

Agreeing on one-off common debt issuance was hardly a Hamiltonian moment โ€” but substantially increasing the blocโ€™s own resources may just bring us closer to one.

China accelerates green steel shift as EU levies loom, researchers say

SINGAPORE, July 11 (Reuters) – China approved no new coal-based steel projects in the first half of 2024, researchers said on Thursday, accelerating its shift towards green production as it prepares for the impact of a new carbon levy on exports to Eur…

Spain calls for close monitoring of ship movements amidst โ€˜carbon leakageโ€™ fears

A closer monitoring of the consequences on European ports of the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme extension is needed, according to Spain’s position expressed at Tuesday’s (18 June) Transport Council.

Key EU lawmaker Peter Liese already eyeing next CO2 price revamp

German EU lawmaker Peter Liese is already eyeing the next revamp of the EUโ€™s emissions trading scheme, wants a CO2 Central Bank and is campaigning for his party to stay the course on EU climate targets, he told Euractiv in an interview.ย 

Revealed โ€” the next Brexit headache on the Irish border

The U.K. and EU are planning separate systems to tax carbon-heavy imports, prompting familiar fears about the impact in Northern Ireland.

Europeโ€™s industry and power sector emissions plunge 15% in 2023

The EUโ€™s emissions trading scheme sectors, industry and power, saw emissions drop by 15% in 2023, putting them on track for their 2030 targets, but experts question whether this was because of – or despite – Europe’s carbon trading framework.