From rural buses to solar panels, our Green agenda has been transformative. Yet, vested interests and big polluters helped to poison the well of public thinkingEamon Ryan was Irish Green party leader from 2011 to 2024Ireland’s Green party went into gov…
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.
Mario Draghi says that “for some technologies, like solar panels, foreign producers are so far ahead that attempting to capture production in Europe would only slow decarbonization”.
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Beer plays an important role in Europe’s economy, but excise burdens, production costs and the post-Covid environment are putting pressure on the sector’s ability to act as a motor for the whole economy.
Winning elections isn’t just about having the right message, it’s about having a message that resonates with people’s daily concerns.
Ukrainian homeowners are using solar panels to prepare for a bitterly cold winter
Green hydrogen is central to Europe’s energy transition, but it relies on potentially dangerous forever chemicals.
While well-received in Brussels, the question of what exactly the common debt should finance, and how it would foster innovation, has been sidelined.
LONDON — The Conservative Party “got trounced in the polls,” ex-Energy Secretary Claire Coutinho admitted earlier this month. After 14 years controlling Westminster’s levers of power, voters dumped the Tories unceremoniously from office overnight in July. And yet — the party is already regrouping, jumping on energy bills and cost-of-living as one basis for a […]
Europe should stop being “naive” and step up efforts to support its faltering industrial base to compete with China and the United States, the newly elected chairman of the European Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee told Euractiv in …
German manufacturers are being strangled. The EU is feeling the pinch. Mario Draghi on Monday warned the EU may be staring at ‘slow agony.’
China will urge a summit of 50 African nations in Beijing this week to take more of its goods, before Western curbs kick in on its exports such as electric vehicles and solar panels, in exchange for more pledges of loans and investment.
Combining farming with green energy production could also increase food security and generate additional income for farmers, according to a new study.
In its latest report, the think-tank Ember recommends investment and a strategy in Agrivoltaics to develop renewable electricity production capacity in Central Europe.
Germany’s biggest solar panel producer, Meyer Burger, will not close down its plant and move to the US, the company announced on Monday (26 August).
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An ethical hack of solar panels in the Netherlands has revealed their vulnerability to cyberspace attacks, prompting calls for more rigorous safety assessments by the industry.
This Berlin brewery’s innovative take on sustainability has seen it use rooftop solar panels to fuel its beermaking, feed spent grain to local cows and sell its beer in tins.
Terrified Beijing may come to dominate yet another clean tech market, the EU aims to impose regulations — and is looking to Japan for help.
Report finds 13 member states generated more energy from wind and solar power than coal and gas for first time in 2024Wind turbines and solar panels have overtaken fossil fuels to generate 30% of the European Union’s electricity in the first half of th…
Czech ammunition factory for Ukraine; Baltic states to cut electrical grid ties with Russia and Belarus. What we know on day 875Russia has been forced to lock down 14 border villages in its Belgorod region due to the Ukrainian fightback against Russian…
One successful test launch doesn’t mean that Europe’s struggles in the space race are over.
The European Union’s growing emphasis on economic security will not unduly impact the bloc’s business community or undermine the fundamental openness of Europe’s economy, the EU’s top trade official said on Tuesday (2 July).
There’s already some discord between the two countries when it comes to China, but there are areas where they could work on similar approaches.
Labour’s energy secretary has big goals for ramping up U.K. solar power. But first he has to deal with protests in his own backyard.
Concerns set out over supply of materials with military applications, and impact of subsidies on global marketChina’s role in providing assistance to Russia in its war against Ukraine, and its “harmful overcapacity” in the production of cheap goods, ha…
Biden is right to heed working class voters in Pennsylvania. The Continent, which has even more to lose from a second China shock, better start listening to its workers too.
Voting in the EU elections begins Thursday and ends on Sunday with turnout slightly up as polls open in the Netherlands. This live blog is closed Scholz hardens line on deportations after row with far-right as German election loomsTurnout in the Nether…
Even if they aren’t yet, things could soon get nastier as Brussels’ investigation into Chinese electric vehicles nears its conclusion.
Stresa, Italy, May 23, 2024 (AFP) – US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Thursday urged G7 ministers meeting in Italy to work on “more ambitious options” to use frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine.The ministers and central bankers from the Group of …
Comments come as Commission president hints EU could impose tariffs on Chinese electric vehiclesBusiness live – latest updatesJanet Yellen, the US treasury secretary, has urged the EU to intervene urgently to dampen the growing export levels of Chinese…
The White House recently announced steep tariffs on a range of Chinese imports, including electric vehicles and solar panels, to protect the US economy from Beijing’s “unfair trade practices”. But are the US’s criticisms of China really justified?
Congress gave Biden a historic sum to green the economy, revive manufacturing and fix crumbling infrastructure. But most of it is unspent.
He says China needs to do more to curb precursor chemical exports fueling the U.S. opioid overdose epidemic.
Beijing “is not a security threat,” Chinese president tells German chancellor.
If you aren’t sure what the difference is between an anti-subsidy probe and an investigation into foreign subsidies, we’ve got you covered.
The EU’s Single Market Commissioner Thierry Breton has expressed his support for the European solar charter, a new document designed to boost support for domestic solar manufacturers.
Chinese state subsidies behind wind turbine operations in Spain, Greece, France, Romania and Bulgaria will be investigated.
Beijing’s commerce minister dismissed as “groundless” US concerns that a surge of low-cost Chinese exports posed a risk to global markets, as Washington’s Treasury chief on Monday (8 April) wrapped up a visit aimed in part at addressing the issue.
Bruno Le Maire’s urgings may run afoul of EU rules.
The European Commission has launched two investigations into Chinese manufacturers of solar panels suspected of benefitting from “distortive” state subsidies and gaining an “unfair advantage.”
The European Union has launched a probe into whether subsidies allowed Chinese firms to submit unfair bids for the construction of a Romanian solar panel park, in the second application of a new trade protection law in one week.
As a strategic raw material, aluminium plays a crucial role in the EU’s journey towards climate neutrality by 2050 and achieving a green transition ‘made in Europe’. Its applications range from wind turbines and solar panels to electric vehicles and ba…
The industry asked the European Commission for urgent help to keep factories open as layoffs begin.
U.K. politicians have pledged to quadruple solar generation by 2035. There is one problem — no one wants to live next door to acres of fields crammed with solar panels.
Tariffs on Chinese solar panels look to be off the table as EU countries look towards drafting a declaration of support to its domestic solar industry – while turning away from past measures like anti-dumping tariffs.
A document seen by POLITICO reveals the EU executive wants countries to sign a joint declaration, stressing the situation ‘requires further action.’
Romania is leading EU efforts on small-scale reactors that could make the bloc a clean tech leader. But so far, they remain unproven.
Cheap Chinese solar panels are flooding the EU market and threatening the viability of homegrown companies.
Findings will likely raise pressure on Brussels to restrict imports from the region.
European solar panel manufacturers have warned they are “poised to shut down manufacturing lines” unless the EU takes emergency measures to save the sector, such as a buy-out of their inventories, which have piled up in recent years due to an influx of…
The European Commission will make a statement Monday as state-backed Chinese competition fuels a wave of bankruptcies in Europe.
Norway has just authorised commercial deep-sea mining on its seabed, which is rich in rare and precious metals. This announcement has whetted the appetite of mining companies, which are developing robots and drones to collect the potato-sized rocks, l…
Meyer Burger, the last producer of solar modules in Germany, has announced plans to close down and relocate to the US, fuelling political debates on whether the industry deserves long-term state support to ensure its survival.
Plans to build a fleet of hydrogen power plants to supplement wind turbines and solar panels are faltering, amid a budgetary squeeze and demands for cost-cutting from industry.
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The EU is promising storage will eventually be available — but manufacturers in Europe’s poorer regions are worried it won’t be within reach.
With its Good Living plan, the city wants to overhaul its gray image.
A British teenager allegedly kidnapped by his mother six years ago fled across the Pyrenees after she announced plans to take him to Finland, French police have said. Alex Batty, 17, told a passing driver, ‘I need a future’ after he was found in a remo…
Concerned that excluding Chinese manufacturers of solar panels and other green technologies could slow down the energy transition and raise costs, EU countries on Thursday (7 December) agreed to continue allowing Chinese products for most subsidy progr…
As EU ministers gather to discuss the proposed ‘Net-Zero Industry Act’ on Thursday (7 December), representatives of the European solar industry have warned against the European Parliament’s demand to exclude Chinese solar panels from solar auctions.
European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen to meet Chinese president Xi Jinping at summit on ThursdayThe EU is to tell China that its €400bn (£343bn) trade deficit is not sustainable long term amid fears that it will flood the bloc with subsidised …
The green transition must be sensitive to prevent the emergence of new disputes.
The European Parliament has agreed measures to supercharge domestic green tech — but will find it hard to rival massive foreign investments.
Conservative MPs fear Britain is leaving itself overly-reliant on Beijing as it tries to shift to clean power.
Once a clique of Calabrian mountain dwellers, the criminal organization has become one of the biggest in the world by teaming up with the competition.
China’s decision on Friday (20 October) to curb graphite exports raised the question of creating new EU strategic stocks of critical raw materials, a question that has so far been largely overlooked by Brussels.
