Energy News Beat The EU’s recent push to encourage the private sector to step in to finance critical investment – especially through the revival of Capital Market Union (CMU) plans – is both unrealistic and misguided, experts warned. On Monday (11 March), European Commissioner for Economy Paolo Gentiloni suggested that the funds needed for the […]
Energy News Beat The European Commission requested information on Thursday (14 March) from nine big tech platforms on their use of targeted ads and generative artificial intelligence (AI) to gauge compliance with the Digital Services Act (DSA). The Commission asked Bing, Google Search, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube and X to provide details regarding […]
Energy News Beat After tabling just a small part of the promised overhaul of legislation on animal welfare, the Commission told the European Parliament plenary on Thursday (14 March) that a revision must rely on a strategic dialogue with stakeholders. The Commission committed to a general overhaul of the animal welfare legislation in 2020, […]
Energy News Beat European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen is expected to start an “intensive” EU election campaign in May with several “thematic” events across Europe, a source familiar with the matter from the European People’s Party (EPP) headquarters in Brussels told Euractiv. “It will be an intensive campaign and its hot phase […]
Energy News Beat Airdrops and a maritime corridor will not be enough to substitute humanitarian aid transported by trucks into Gaza, where people are on the verge of famine, European Commissioner for Crisis Management Janez Lenarčič said on Thursday (14 March). Land routes remain the “quickest, easiest and most efficient” way to get supplies […]
Energy News Beat The EU’s Environment Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius is touring Paraguay, Bolivia, and Ecuador this week to address concerns related to the implementation of the world’s first ban on deforestation-linked products, a measure criticised as protectionist by some of the bloc’s trade partners. The rules, which contribute to EU efforts to achieve climate […]
Energy News Beat When I think about the Russian elections, particularly the presidential one taking place this weekend, I cannot help but remember the totalitarian voting in which I participated as a youngster. We have already argued that Vladimir Putin’s regime should no longer be described as authoritarian: After the brutal aggression against Ukraine, […]
Energy News Beat Animal welfare is one of those rare issues that is neither left nor right. Across the political spectrum and irrespective of nationality, you’ll always find politicians who care about the plight of animals; it is certainly not the exclusive domain of the Greens and the Left. Dr. Joanna Swabe is senior […]
Energy News Beat A key provision in the EU’s AI rulebook to assess the risks of foundation models such as ChatGPT may become obsolete within a year due to the pace of developing technologies, experts told Euractiv. The EU’s AI Act is the world’s first comprehensive rulebook to regulate artificial intelligence. It does so […]
Energy News Beat While his father was still vice president, Hunter Biden and his business partners tried unsuccessfully to help a Chinese energy firm acquire one of the United States’ premier nuclear technology companies in a secret attempt to “control” the global market, according to new evidence turned over to Congress in President Joe Biden’s […]
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