TAG: Energy dependency
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
Expect Russia to do ‘whatever possible’ to reassert influence in Bulgaria, outgoing PM warns
Bulgaria's outgoing Prime Minister Nikolai Denkov spent his mandate trying to boot out the Russians, and has no doubt that Moscow will redouble efforts to recover its influence now his administration has collapsed. Denkov, who stepped down on Tuesday, tol...
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
Russia is bombing Ukraine into darkness — and leaving Europe short of power
Just outside Kyiv is a smoking crater where one of Ukraine's largest power plants used to be.The bombed-out ruin of the Trypilska Thermal Power Plant — the main electricity producer for millions of people — is a symbol of a devastating shift underway in U...
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 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
You’ve had two years: EU eyerolls at Hungary’s request for help with Russian oil
BRUSSELS — You reap what you sow.Privately, that’s the exasperated sentiment among EU diplomats as Hungary joins with Slovakia to try and leverage EU rules to preserve access to a discounted product nearly everyone else has had to shun: Russian oil.Their...
2 months ago
EU snubs Hungary and Slovakia over Ukraine oil sanctions
BRUSSELS — The European Commission has no plans to begin formal talks with Ukraine after Kyiv imposed a partial ban on exports of Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia, the EU executive said on Thursday.In June, Ukraine adopted sanctions blocking the transi...
2 months ago
Teresa Ribera faces nuclear hurdle to running EU green policy
BRUSSELS — On paper, the European Union’s leading candidate to guide green policy for the next five years has it all: decades of experience, endless high-profile contacts and a shining reputation. There’s just one problem: Teresa Ribera is a hardened nucl...
2 months ago
If war ends I’ll restore relations with Russia, Slovakia’s Fico says
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has vowed to restore relations with Russia if the war in Ukraine ends during his term as leader.“If the war ends during the [2023-2027] mandate of this government, I'll do everything possible for the renewal of economic a...
1 week ago