In 2022, EU coal production and consumption continued to increase, reaching 349 million tonnes (+5% compared with the previous year) and 454 million tonnes (+2%), respectively. This rebound started in 2021 and was mainly driven by lignite, a solid fossil fuel with low energy content belonging to the bigger category of brown coal.
Climate Crisis
ARC – EU Ministers Move to Make Pesticide Reduction Targets Meaningless, New Reports Reveal
Imagine having a target to reduce pesticide use and risk by 50%, an aim to collect reliable data, the basic groundwork in place to reach it, and then working to make it far harder to […]
EU politics
Paul Mason: The AfD’s breakthrough shows that parties of the left must get radical
From The Guardian If Europe’s social democrats wish to save themselves from extinction then they will have to become, well, er…, social democratic. Read here
Geopolitics
Turkish Minute: President Erdoğan gives himself the power to declare a mobilization
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has granted himself the authority to declare a mobilization in Turkey, a power that previously rested with the cabinet, with a new regulation published in the country’s Official Gazette on May […]
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