La source d’informations quotidiennes sur l’énergie et le climat en France. Par ARTHUR NAZARET Avec AUDE LE GENTIL et NICOLAS CAMUT Infos et tuyaux à partager ? Ecrivez à Nicolas Camut, Aude Le Gentil et Arthur Nazaret | Voir dans le navigateur AU MENU —Roland Lescure veut envoyer le CO2 six pieds sous terre. —Les dernières vagues du débat sur la mer. —Emmanuel Macron, la transition et le “mur d’investissements”. Bonjour à toutes et à tous, nous sommes le 26 avril. Vous avez été nombreux à lire notre liste des 31 personnalités qui comptent sur l’énergie et le climat. Et quelques u ..read more

Listen on Spotify Apple Music Google Play Since the 2019 election this European Parliament has had to deal with various challenges, from Brexit and Covid-19 to the war in Ukraine and scandals such as Qatargate. At the same time it has managed to legislate on key issues such as climate change, AI and migration. In this episode we look back at the highs and lows of the EU legislature’s last five years. Host Sarah Wheaton is joined by a roundtable of POLITICO colleagues: data reporter Hanne Cokelaere; sustainability reporter Louise Guillot; editor at large Nicholas Vinocur; policy editor Joa ..read more

Ivo Daalder, former U.S. ambassador to NATO, is CEO of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and host of the weekly podcast “World Review with Ivo Daalder.” He writes POLITICO’s Across the Pond column. The one thing U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration feared most since Hamas attacked Israel is that the confrontation would escalate and engulf the entire region, pulling the U.S. into yet another war in the Middle East. And the tit-for-tat strikes between Israel and Iran over the last few weeks has put Washington on edge. While the 19 days of retaliatory strikes now seem to be behind us, th ..read more

Could Pedro Sánchez, the Spanish prime minister nicknamed “Mr. Handsome,” be the next president of the European Council? That’s what European officials and diplomats have been asking since Sánchez’ surprise announcement Wednesday that he is considering resigning as the head of Spain’s government. The news triggered feverish speculation regarding Spain’s political future — as well as on Sánchez’s odds of netting a top job in Brussels. In a bombshell four-page letter, Sánchez expressed exasperation with the constant attacks on his family by newspapers and right-wing militants. The extreme nature ..read more

BRUSSELS — Europe’s phoney war with China is at an end. After years of building up an improved arsenal for a trade war, Europe is now showing it is willing to get tough on Beijing. On Tuesday, EU investigators swooped on the Dutch and Polish offices of Nuctech, a maker of security scanners, in a case that hinges on one of Europe’s longest running grievances with China — lavish state subsidies that help Chinese firms undercut European rivals. Nuctech was once run by Hu Haifeng, son of President Xi Jinping’s predecessor, Hu Jintao, and China’s reaction was predictably seething. The raid “highlig ..read more

Welcome to Declassified, a weekly humor column. It’s been a genuinely glorious week for Belgium. In particular, for the kind of ‘have they laced the water supply with LSD’ moments that are oh-so-common here. First, a Belgian man was acquitted of drunk-driving because he has a rare condition called auto-brewery syndrome, which means the body produces alcohol. In what his lawyer described as “another unfortunate coincidence,” the man does in fact work in a brewery. Then there was the glorious sight (although not sound) of a nine-year-old British boy winning the European gull impersonation c ..read more

The U.S. is putting the finishing touches on one of its largest Ukraine military aid packages to date, preparing to ink contracts for as much as $6 billion worth of weapons and equipment for Kyiv’s forces, according to two U.S. officials. The package, which could be finalized and announced as soon as Friday, will dip into the $61 billion in Ukraine funding signed into law by President Joe Biden on Wednesday. It would include Patriot air defense munitions, artillery ammunition, drones, counter-drone weapons, and air-to-air missiles to be fitted on fighter planes, according to one of the officia ..read more

The far-right Alternative for Germany party (AfD) is in dire trouble as it deals with the fallout of allegations that two of its leading candidates for the European election have dodgy links to Russia and China. During a debate in parliament today, lawmakers from across the political spectrum slammed the AfD, accusing the party of pandering to authoritarian regimes and presenting a security risk to Germany’s democracy. The party is “betraying and selling out the German people,” Marc Henrichmann, a lawmaker for the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) said. The AfD, he added, is a “rig ..read more

ROME — In early March, Matteo Salvini climbed aboard a bulldozer to break ground for a new bridge in Lombardy.  The building site was blessed by a priest, before Salvini — Italy’s infrastructure minister — reeled off a list of construction projects in the works. If there are any delays, he said, he will pitch a tent in protest himself.  At the top of his list is a far bigger bridge — 3km long — across the Strait of Messina, between mainland Italy and Sicily. The wildly ambitious idea can be traced back to ancient Roman times, when Pliny the Elder described how a floating structure wa ..read more

Ukrainian Agriculture Minister Mykola Solskyi handed in his resignation Thursday following allegations he had been involved in the illegal acquisition of millions of euros worth of state land before joining the government. Prosecutors on Tuesday accused Solskyi of leading a group involved in the illegal acquisition of 291 million hryvnias (€6.9 million) worth of state land and in an attempt to seize more property worth around 190 million hryvnias (€4.5 million) between 2017 and 2021, at a time he was working as a lawyer. Solskyi submitted his resignation in a handwritten note, shared on social ..read more