Category: 3. Europe

Despite past failures, growing public support and recent international initiatives offer Copenhagen an opportunity to push for wealth taxation.

A recently released progress report from the Polish EU Presidency’s final meeting with…

By now, we’re all used to seeing corporate sustainability pledges, promising things like carbon neutrality or net zero by 2050. 

However, can we truly trust that these pledges are credible and mean what…

Wird Friedrich Merz ein echter Reformkanzler? 
In Berlin verdichten sich die Hinweise auf eine „Agenda 2030“ – mit möglichen Einschnitten bei Sozialbeiträgen, Bürgergeld und Gesundheitskosten. 
Doch kann ein CDU-Kanzler das durchsetzen – mit einer SPD, die sich…

Voters have “clear limits” on backing climate policies, the More in Common analysis argued, and would not support “significantly higher bills or taxes” to fund the green transition. The Labour government’s failure to bring energy bills under control, after promising before the…

“Civil society and patient organisations signed agreements with the Commission in good faith, planned their activities accordingly, and have now been left without the operating support on which they rely,” the MEPs wrote.

Several health NGOs have already made staff redundant due to the…

Beyond the raw totals, the Commission’s plans also indicate whom Brussels trusts to handle sensitive tasks. Germany, Greece and Spain top the allocations for migration, security and border management, with €4.1 billion, €3.5 billion and €3 billion respectively. Poland, with €1.9…

Some warn that unless clearly allocated, money will inevitably flow to industrial projects that fit with the Commission’s competitiveness agenda, leaving unprofitable but no-less-urgent environmental programs unfunded.

“[There’s a] real danger that biodiversity will be sidelined in favour…