Candidate for Catalan presidency fails at first attempt
Catalan separatist Quim Torra failed Saturday in his first attempt to become regional president but could still clinch the post in a second vote. As expected, Torra did not win an absolute majority in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Brussels takes aim at Europe’s dirty trucks
It took the biggest cartel fine in EU history to get truckmakers moving on efforts to go green. The European Commission will on Thursday deliver its second major blow to lorry companies within two...
View ArticleCommission refers 6 countries to EU court over foul air
The European Commission on Thursday sent six countries to Europe’s highest court for failing to meet EU air quality standards, escalating a long-running process by Brussels. Germany, France and the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
France’s avocado president falls short on green goals
It’s more than a year since Emmanuel Macron pledged to #makeourplanetgreatagain — but his ambitious environmental agenda has largely been a flop. Since becoming French president last May, he has sought...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Germany targets the atom
Germany is coming after its neighbors’ nuclear reactors. Berlin is getting rid of its own nuclear plants — the last is supposed to shut down by the end of 2022 — and is turning its attention to the...
View ArticleMaroš Šefčovič enters race to become European Commission president
Maroš Šefčovič, Slovakia’s European Commissioner and vice president in charge of the energy union, signaled Monday that he wants to become the next European Commission president. At a political meeting...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Car mechanics gear up for a more uncertain electric future
HAMBURG, Germany — For René Kienas, owning a small independent garage in car-worshipping Germany has meant a lifetime of steady work. But for his younger partner Ricardo Wunderlich, 35, the future will...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Trump and Juncker: The art of the no-deal
For all the love and kisses, all U.S. President Donald Trump and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker agreed on was to leave things as they are. After a three-and-a-half-hour meeting...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Europe mulls stripping carbon from the skies
Cutting emissions isn’t enough to tackle global warming, so the EU is taking a closer look at how to remove carbon from the atmosphere. Carbon removal schemes range from planting lots of trees to more...
View ArticleKey things to watch for in energy and climate this fall
Negotiators in the energy and climate world will spend the season trying to wrap up the second half of the Clean Energy Package, while the Commission mulls ways for the bloc to decarbonize by...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Arguments between rich and poor endanger December climate summit
A deep divide between developed and developing countries is casting a shadow over prospects for December’s COP24 global climate talks in Katowice, Poland. The clash stalled negotiations in Bangkok that...
View ArticleMEPs vote for higher CO2 targets for cars in the face of industry resistance
European lawmakers agreed late Monday to boost carbon dioxide standards for cars and vans in a fight that has pitted the interests of the car industry against efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tussle in Brussels: Contenders limber up for Commission prize fight
It’s no Rumble in the Jungle but at least there are now two contenders from Europe’s main political parties willing to fight it out for the Commission presidency next year. Limbering up in the red...
View ArticleEurope’s power couple break up
Germany and Austria are splitting. Again. And one of the culprits is Germany’s Energiewende green energy transformation. As of this month, the countries will no longer form a single bidding zone where...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mark Carney, eco-warrior
LONDON — Mark Carney’s job is to guide the pound and the British economy through the Brexit storms. But the Bank of England chief is also building a legacy in another, unexpected field: climate change....
View ArticleClik here to view.
EU slams Alstom-Siemens rail mega-merger plans
Franco-German ambitions for a European train champion to challenge China look increasingly likely to be derailed after Brussels set out a long string of objections to a merger between Siemens and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Brussels aims to slash EU net greenhouse gases to zero by mid-century
The European Commission wants the EU to undertake the most radical climate policy of any big economy. But it recognizes the political risks of taking such a step. On Wednesday, the Commission sets out...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Paris is burning
They were supposed to always have Paris. Three years after world leaders celebrated the signing of a landmark agreement intended to head off catastrophic global warming, the effort looks to be going...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Europeans say ‘don’t touch my car’
Messing with people’s cars is the new third rail of European politics — touch it and you get burned. Just ask German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who’s struggling to stop a spate of court-ordered diesel...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Miriam Dalli
If Brussels puts in place tough greenhouse gas limits for cars and vans next year, it will be in no small part thanks to Miriam Dalli. By building alliances among left-leaning and Green parties, the...
View Article