Can back-to-coal still mean forward to renewables?
Prolonging the use of coal is likely to increase emissions in the short term — but it also could accelerate the rollout of renewables.
Opinion
Ukraine shows need to ensure humanitarians can do their jobs
Blocking access to humanitarian aid in Ukraine is yet another example of the Age of Impunity that has defined the past decade of conflict worldwide.
Opinion
How Nato's Bucharest summit came back to bite in Ukraine
Was Bush right, to want to offer Ukraine immediate Nato membership? Or was Europe right, to offer it as a distant prospect? There were certainly no answers on offer in that hall of mirrors in Bucharest.
News in Brief
- Biden in Brussels next week for Nato and EU
- Don't let Ukraine crowd out climate, IPCC tells lawmakers
- EU sends €300m aid tranche to Ukraine
- Mariupol hospital bombing may be war crime, says von der Leyen
- Hungary parliament elects first female president
- IAEA: 'no critical impact' on safety at Chernobyl
- EU agrees further sanctions on Russia and Belarus
- Biden bans Russian oil and gas ahead of EU summit
Sweden is arming Ukraine — and still fighting over Nato
"Not even Putin can concoct some imperial Russian myth that Sweden is within Russia's holy borders," said prominent leftwing intellectual and editor of the Dala-Demokraten newspaper, Göran Greider.
With war raging, a push to roll back green farming
Campaigners say pesticides lobbyists are trying to rollback green farming rules but Europe "can't just drop everything we've already tried to develop for sustainable development of farming in the future," says EU agriculture commissioner.
Luxury goods sanctions seen testing Italian solidarity
Entrepreneurs in Vicenza concerned about rising prices now must contend with the EU ban on luxury goods exports to Russia.
A chorus of warnings about Russian meddling in Bosnia
In a thinly veiled warning to Russia, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell pledged to "continue deterring those who would feel emboldened to undertake destabilisation actions" during a trip to Sarajevo.
Opinion
Music, martial arts, and extremism in Germany
Right-wing music festivals and mixed martial arts events have become key venues for funding extremism. A plan from Germany's interior minister Nancy Faeser can help tackle that.
Opinion
A call to impose 'sanctions from hell' on Russia
A call for "sanctions from hell" and to put pressure on Putin on every front, by the former Ukrainian ambassador to the EU, Kostiantyn Yelisieiev, now back in the capital, Kyiv.
Column
Ukraine, yes. But remember Afghanistan and Somalia, too
Funds for other emergencies are drying up because Ukraine seems to "suck all the oxygen that is in the room," says UN humanitarian coordinator for Somalia.
Opinion
A dream endangered in Serbia
There are still close to 50 percent of Serbian citizens who believe that Serbia should evolve democratically, with rule of law, full respect for human and minority rights and free media, within the European family.
Podcast
Foreign fighter diaries
Last week, Thomas lived in Brussels with a white-collar office job. Today, Thomas is in the international brigades, comprised of foreign fighters from all over the world, patrolling Ukrainian streets against Russian incursions, on Europe's new frontline.
Russia booted from Council of Europe in unprecedented step
Russia "poses an open menace to security in Europe," said the Council of Europe after a vote to expel the country from the human rights organisation.
Aboard the refugee train: 'Our lives are worth nothing'
Ukrainian refugees fleeing by train to Poland face 10-hour journey in overcrowded conditions.
Russian missiles kill 35 as refugee concerns grow
Russian cruise missiles killed 35 people near the Polish border on Sunday. Concerns grow about trapped refugees if Lviv is cut off.
Opinion
Why Russia's EU ambassador should be persona non grata
Russia's EU ambassador is the Kremlin's top asset in Brussels. So if the West is serious about cleaning house, it's time for Vladimir Chizhov to go.
EU leaders pledge to double military support to Ukraine
EU leaders ended their summit in Versailles with a pledge to double military aid to Ukraine with a proposal for an extra €500m.
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Lobbyists and lawyers start split from Moscow
Some consultancies, such as Brunswick or Kreab, were already refusing Russian clients well before the invasion in late February. Law firm Covington represented the Ukrainian government on a pro-bono basis in its case against Russia at the Hague this week.
Wariness over more shared EU borrowing
There was no breakthrough on further debt mutualisation at a finance ministers' meeting, but they did loosen anti-subsidy rules.
Fourth round of EU sanctions hits energy and oligarchs
The EU slapped a fourth round of sanctions on Russia, but Europeans still can buy Russian oil, gas and nuclear fuel.
Opinion
In Belarus, the other victims of Putin's war
Less than one-third of Belarusians support Lukashenko. Isn't it time for Europe finally to rally to our side, too?
Boardroom equality rules advance, despite opposition
Sweden and Poland rejected a proposal on boardroom equality for women, while Estonia, Slovakia and Hungary abstained.
Agenda
Concerns about Russia dominate EU AGENDA March 14-20
Russia, Bosnia, farming, equality, carbon and cryptocurrencies are on the EU agenda March 14-20.
Lviv, an architectural jewel, braces for Russian bombs
People in Lviv, Ukraine, are wrapping statues and boarding up church windows amid fears 'Muscovite soldiers' will target their art treasures.
Opinion
Thank Poles, not government, for Ukraine refugee welcome
The Polish government has been happy to take credit for the display of civic responsibility to refugees. But beware a wolf in sheep's clothing.
Calls for EU-wide gas cap, but no collective response
When it comes to capping the price of gas in Europe, the positions among the EU's 27 heads of state and government are another jumble.
Kyiv calls for oil embargo but EU set for phased approach
Experts argue that an oil embargo would only really damage the Russian economy — if the EU joins the UK and US effort.
Opinion
Ukraine's EU membership bid - symbolic, yes, but essential
A membership perspective is, in no small degree, a symbolic gesture. But these gestures matter both to provide moral and political support to Ukrainians under attack and to undermine Putin's claims to Ukraine and the rest of the region.
Leaders gather at Versailles after atrocity in Ukraine
Amid the pomp, and the grandness of the setting for an EU summit in Versailles, few breakthroughs were seen on how to rein in Russia's aggression in Ukraine, like the possible "war crime" at a Mariupol hospital.
Opinion
In Moldova, a sense of foreboding
Moldova relies on Russian gas and it has 1,500 Russian troops fully in control of part of its territory, Transnistria. In light of the situation in Ukraine, it's all rather ominous.
Prepare for a long conflict and bolster defences, EU told
Ahead of a summit, EU leaders are deeply divided on both Ukraine's EU accession, and on how quickly to phase-out Russian fossil fuel imports, the key source of energy for many EU countries.
EUobserved
The Ukraine war: What will survive of us?
Today ordinary Russians are once again victims of a totalitarian regime. But still, something is breaking inside me.
Opinion
Time for the EU to protect all refugees
European member states need to take responsibility for this crisis by implementing the Temporary Protection Directive — for everyone.
