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    Mobile Phone
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    MEPs denounce reports of political espionage

    François Alfonsi Diana Riba i Giner
    Opinion by François Alfonsi & Diana Riba i Giner
    EFA MEP Diana Riba (ERC) has submitted a written question to the European Commission which denounces the revelations of political espionage against leading Catalan politicians, published this week by the Guardian and El Pais newspapers. The initiative has been supported by about fifteen MEPs from...
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    People standing under solar panels/science-in-hd
    Opinion |

    Green hydrogen & renewables

    Damien Carême Henrike Hahn
    Opinion by Damien Carême & Henrike Hahn
    On Wednesday 8 July 2020, the European Commission presented its so-called “Hydrogen Strategy”. Our MEPs Henrike Hahn and Damien Carême, co-chairs of Greens/EFA's Green Industrial Policy Campaign look at why hydrogen will be a key energy source to achieve carbon neutrality by 2040. But not any type of hydrogen: green hydrogen only!
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    ©dhahi alsaeedi
    Power Grids
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    A new European energy infrastructure policy in line with the climate emergency

    Marie Toussaint
    Opinion by Marie Toussaint
    During this week’s plenary session, Members of the European Parliament will adopt a resolution setting out the Parliament’s views on the upcoming revision of the trans-European energy infrastructure Regulation (TEN-E Regulation). The current law sets out the process and criteria to select cross-border electricity, gas and oil infrastructu…
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    Fridays for Future demonstration European Council/Anuna De Wever/Adélaïde Charlier
    Fridays for Future demonstration European Council/Anuna De Wever/Adélaïde Charlier
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    The EU recovery plan

    In our previous blog, “Financing the green deal,” we have already briefly discussed the EU Recovery Plan. This plan was proposed by the European Commission to define the procedure of recovery in Europe after the COVID crisis. While it is mainly focused on rebuilding the economy, a lot of voices in and outside of the European institutions …
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    @bady qb
    Hong Kong Island Skyline
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    No feel-good summit

    Reinhard Bütikofer
    Opinion by Reinhard Bütikofer
    When Commission President von der Leyen and Council President Michel meet China's Prime Minister Li Keqiang today for an electronic version of the traditional EU-China Summit, there is only one question: feel-good summit, yes or no?
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    Green Growth
    Opinion |

    Financing the green deal

    As you know the commission proposed a pact called the European Green Deal, that will be the roadmap for Europe to tackle climate change and become carbon neutral in 2050. In our previous blogs we have explained what this pact is, and what it is not. In this blog, we would like to address an important aspect that is missing: MONEY. In the …
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    orange flowers © Henry Be
    orange flowers © by Henry Be
    Opinion |

    Nature must be at the heart of the post-Covid-19 recovery

    Anna Deparnay-Grunenberg Grace O'Sullivan
    Opinion by Anna Deparnay-Grunenberg & Grace O'Sullivan
    Biodiversity is all around us. Even for those restricted to home in these trying and sad times, a cursory look around shows a world teeming with life.
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    © CC0 Martin Sanchez.jpg
    COVID-19
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    Will COVID-19 destroy or empower the European Green Deal?

    This new crisis might be a make it or break it moment, and it is crucial we don’t return to business as usual afterwards. Let’s not forget that going back to normal is going back to a climate emergency.
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    The COVID-19 crisis reveals the many fissures of the EU food system and shows us the way out

    As COVID-19 hits the EU agri-food sector hard, it also reveals its main shortcomings. Far from shying away from the issues, we should use this occasion to reshape the EU food and farming system to the benefit of farmers, consumers and their shared environment, with the help of the future Farm to Fork strategy, and, hopefully a refounded C…
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    ©Alexandra_Koch
    Le coronavirus menace le monde
    Opinion |

    All about the european green deal

    The European Green Deal is a pact that was launched this year by the European Commission. It aims to make Europe the world’s first climate-neutral continent by 2050. This all sounds good on paper, but will it be enough?