Victor Jack
European Commission set to push for 90 percent emissions cut by 2040
The European Commission is expected to call on the EU to slash its greenhouse gas emissions by 90 pe...
8 months ago
Czech industry minister vies to become EU’s next energy chief
Czech Industry and Trade Minister Jozef Síkela, who played a key role in coordinating Europe’s respo...
8 months ago
EU mulls ‘Industrial’ twin for Green Deal as election pressure bites
BRUSSELS — Move over Green Deal, there’s a new buzzword in town — and just in time for the EU electi...
8 months ago
EU rebuffs solar pleas as sector goes broke, document shows
BRUSSELS — Goodbye and goodnight.That’s the European Union's veiled message to its dying solar manufacturers in a draft declaration seen by POLITICO. Chinese mass manufacturing has brought Europe's solar makers to their knees and had prompted them to turn...
6 months ago
EU snubs dying solar manufacturers as China poised to swallow market
BRUSSELS — Europe’s solar producers are hurtling towards extinction after the European Union hinted Tuesday that it wouldn’t bail out ailing manufacturers, according to a person familiar with closed-door talks — a move that puts thousands of jobs at risk...
6 months ago
Help us build wind farms to beat Russian bombs, Ukraine tells EU
Building more green energy plants will help Ukraine keep the lights on as Russia bombards the country's power system, the head of the country’s largest private energy firm told POLITICO. But Ukraine needs the EU to do that.In an interview, DTEK CEO Maksym...
6 months ago
France talks tough on Ukraine while gobbling up more Russian gas
BRUSSELS — Put your money where your mouth is.Such grumbling is percolating across Europe as new data reveals France quietly ramping up gas payments to Russia just as President Emmanuel Macron loudly positions himself as one of Ukraine’s staunchest defend...
6 months ago
EU gears up to sue Germany if it doesn’t change divisive gas tax
BRUSSELS — The EU will haul Germany to court unless the country revises a controversial gas law that neighboring countries say is harming their efforts to diversify away from Russian energy, a senior European Commission official told POLITICO.Germany adop...
6 months ago
EU weighs sanctions on Russian liquefied natural gas
The European Commission is considering sanctions against Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG), according to two EU diplomats, a move that would mark the first time Brussels has dared to go after Moscow's gas sector.The Commission, the EU's executive, is cu...
5 months ago
EU finally ready to bring down Russia’s gas empire … sort of
For the first time since Moscow launched its full-scale attack on Ukraine more than two years ago, the EU is expected to aim its sanction bazooka at Russia’s lucrative gas sector.But the proposals on the table would only touch a fraction of the billions M...
5 months agoEU proposes first sanctions on Russia’s LNG sector
BRUSSELS — For the first time, the European Commission has proposed sanctions on Russia's powerful liquefied natural gas industry, according to documents seen by POLITICO.The measures wouldn’t directly bar Russian LNG imports to the EU. Instead, they woul...
5 months ago
EU ‘ready’ to negotiate as Hungary-Ukraine oil row boils over
BRUSSELS — The European Union on Tuesday said it would step in after Hungary and Slovakia accused Ukraine of threatening their oil supplies with its partial ban on Russian crude exports passing through the country.Kyiv last month adopted sanctions blockin...
2 months ago
Hungary facing fuel crisis as Ukraine turns up heat on Russian oil supplies
Hungary is racing against time to avoid power outages and fuel shortages after Ukraine imposed a partial ban on Russian oil passing through its territory.Kyiv last month imposed sanctions blocking the transit of pipeline crude sold by Moscow’s largest pri...
2 months ago
Hungary demands EU action against Ukraine as Russian oil spat escalates
BRUSSELS — Hungary on Monday said it had asked the European Union to take action against Ukraine for imposing a partial ban on Russian oil exports, arguing the move was jeopardizing Budapest’s energy security.Kyiv last month adopted sanctions blocking the...
2 months ago