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€™

Car industry pours cold water on von der Leyenโ€™s โ€˜lead marketsโ€™ plans

Increasing demand for green steel through minimum quotas for carmakers is not the right way to decarbonise steel production, carmakers said, while environmentalists consider the car industry to be โ€œuniquely placedโ€ to work as a lead market for green st…

Steelmakers want von der Leyen to force public authorities, industry to buy green steel

EU steelmakers are pinning their hopes on Ursula von der Leyenโ€™s plans to force public authorities and steel-using sectors to buy ‘clean’ as a key way to decarbonise European industries – an idea already endorsed by German politicians and seen by many …

Clock ticking as EU tries to unblock energy taxation directive

The French electricity sector fears that the revision of the EU’s energy taxation directive will fail before the June European elections, despite a last push by the Belgian EU presidency, which is seeking to break the deadlock in the Council of the EU.