Can Spain convince the EU to fund climate adaptation by taxing oil and gas profits?
Spain wants the EU to create a European climate adaptation fund. And to finance it, the Spanish government is suggesting taxing oil and gas companies — in other words, applying the “polluter pays” pri...
8 Sep 4min
Migration - when and where will Europe’s ‘return hubs’ be set up?
New return hubs could soon be established outside the European Union. At least, that is the ambition of several European countries, which want to speed up the return of migrants who have been denied t...
7 Sep 4min
Is the EU well on track to reach defence readiness by 2030?
Europeans have set ambitious goals for the defence capacities that they want to achieve in the next few years. They have increased their defence spending by 79%!Bill that be enough? Hosted on Acast. S...
4 Sep 4min
Do EU regions benefit equally from trade deals?
Mercosur, CETA, TTIP, the EU’s trade policy can sometimes feel very far away from the people who are actually affected by its decisions. In EU jargon, trade policy is an exclusive EU competence. This ...
3 Sep 4min
Could the EU get the same commitments from Meta as the US?
In the United States, a group of 29 states has achieved what Congress has so far failed to do: secure real commitments from Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, to limit the addictive n...
2 Sep 4min
How real is the Russian military threat to the EU?
At this stage, there is no evidence to suggest that Russia is preparing to attack a European country in the coming years. This assessment, shared by European intelligence services, is not unanimously ...
1 Sep 4min
Data centres in Europe: can local opposition stop them?
Thirty billion euros. That’s how much the EU wants to mobilise to build data centres. But this ambition might run up against an obstacle. In recent years, protests against data centres have been emerg...
31 Aug 5min
How can European countries accelerate the greening of their electricity production?
In this episode of Europe Talks Back, we look at the share of renewable energy production in the EU and how it could be expanded, with insights from Flore Belin, Energy Policy Coordinator at Climate A...
29 Aug 22min
