EU agrees directive that will force Apple to change iPhone charging port
The European Union has reached a provisional agreement that will effectively force Apple to change the charging port used by its smaller electronics. Last year the European Commission published an 18-page directive which would require electronic devices to all use the same type of USB-C charging port. According to the EU, the move will reduce […]
EU economy projected to avoid recession
A more positive picture of the EU economy has been predicted: it is to avoid recession with lower inflation and higher growth than had been forecast. The bloc will now avoid a technical recession, the EU said in its winter economic forecast, which is when the economy goes through a six-month period of economic contraction. […]
Long shadow of Brexit is darkening UK-EU relations as negotiations remain stalled
The battle lines then drawn between the two sides. The UK is now saying that the protocol doesn’t work and is planning to overwrite the substance of it in UK law to suit the demands of the Unionists and Brexiteers: a dual UK-EU regulatory regime – Northern Ireland can choose to follow UK or EU […]
Why next European Investment Bank chief should be female
The news that Werner Hoyer will be stepping down at the end of the year as president of the European Investment Bank (EIB), the world’s largest multilateral financial institution, offers a chance to tackle one of the root causes of the so-called “crisis of multilateralism.” Like many other international organizations, the European Investment Bank is […]
Protecting workers’ rights throughout the AI revolution
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform economies and increase global GDP by trillions of euros over the next 10 years. At the same time, AI technologies present significant new challenges for workers’ rights, including new forms of automation, workplace surveillance, and discrimination. Labor disputes are already impacted by developments of AI in the […]
Can Green Deal survive the 2024 European election?
Climate-doubters claim top spot in the Netherlands. A boiler ban puts the German government on the back foot. Five years after France’s ‘gilets jaunes’ [Yellow Vests movement] forced him into a retreat on fuel duty, president Emmanuel Macron calls for a break from EU environmental rules. As governments wrangle at COP28, Europe’s political parties have reason to worry that promising action on […]
‘Green’ banks lend most to polluters, reveals ECB
Researchers at the European Central Bank (ECB) revealed that commercial banks in the eurozone, touting themselves as environmentally responsible or ‘green’, are, in fact, major contributors to new lending for significant polluters. In a blog published on Wednesday (6 December), the bank supervisor announced that commercial lenders that talk a lot about environmental disclosure issued […]
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