Energy and Climate

Last year’s European election reshaped EU politics. The Commission president must acknowledge a new alternative right-wing majority even as she fights to preserve her signature political achievement.

Publicly Paris denies the allegation, but several other countries say it has raised that position in private meetings.

Europe has been losing ground to the U.S. and China in carrying out clinical research of new therapies.

EU competition chief Teresa Ribera is due to announce a policy reversal on Wednesday.

Months of chipping away at EU green rules has caused some lawmakers to finally blow their tops.

Center-left allies briefed against her while far-right opponents celebrated. It’s been quite a week for Ursula von der Leyen.

The claim comes just days after the EU executive said the opposite, igniting a political firestorm that imperiled EU chief Ursula von der Leyen’s coalition.

Threatening to kill green legislation is becoming a habit in Brussels.

The Council’s proposal goes even further the Commission’s and continues a trend of cutting back EU green regulations.

Denmark picks up the Council leadership baton at a moment of geopolitical volatility.

The Danish presidency has under three months to reach a deal on the EU’s next emissions-cutting targets.

The Common Agricultural Policy reform, new rules for deportations and revised environmental standards could all be hit by a recent decision to pull the greenwashing law.

The vice president of the EU executive pressured the environment commissioner over several days to preserve the law.

Still, diplomats privately express optimism that a deal can be reached.

The proposed law preventing companies from making misleading environmental claims now looks unlikely to be enacted.

A move by Tehran to disrupt oil shipments could mean sharply higher prices at the pump in the United States.

The Iranian parliament backed a measure to close the critical shipping route in response to U.S. airstrikes on nuclear sites in Iran, state media reported

Socialists and liberals outraged that EPP sided with far right in pulling greenwashing legislation and could now block EU’s law-making process.

Officials told POLITICO the EU would drop proposals for a $45-per-barrel limit on Moscow’s crude as a result of the Israel-Iran conflict.

The EU executive will abandon its green claims directive after right-wing lawmakers vowed to block it in the Parliament.

Officials accuse Teresa Ribera of insisting on a loophole in the EU’s proposal that could one day allow Russian gas to return to the bloc.