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The right mix of short and long-duration storage is key to answering the challenges ahead while phasing out fossil-fuel solutions. All innovative technologies should be considered for tenders, contingent upon a mandatory requirement: the demonstration of a high technology readiness level.

French power giant EDF's future investments could exceed €20 billion per year, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, the country's energy transition minister, said on Thursday (28 September), adding that the exact level was the subject of discussion.

The Abraham Accords have transformed the region, shaping a brighter future in the Middle East and beyond, while opening new doors for collaboration with the EU, writes Haim Regev.

Kazakhstan’s support is vital for enforcing sanctions against Russia and ending the war, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said as he met Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev in Berlin on Wednesday, as EU countries seek to win over Central Asia as a key...

French small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are ready fight climate change as long as there is no “regulatory tsunami”, the French Federation of SMEs warned ahead of introduction of the EU’s new extra-financial reporting requirements.

The Bulgarian parliament abandoned its intention to ban the import of Russian oil by the end of this year and decided that this should happen by the end of October 2024.

Slovakia is on the brink of a critical parliamentary election set for Saturday, with a campaign that underlined a stark divide between nationalist sentiments, represented by former socialist prime minister Robert Fico, and the forces of liberalism embodied by the...

To uphold sanctions against Russia, Finland has launched round-the-clock border checks to prevent Russian vehicles from entering its territory via the six cross-border roads from Norway. Norwegian and Finnish customs officials confirmed to the Norwegian press that additional resources had...

Filing a case against the US over its massive green subsidy push in the form of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) with the World Trade Organisation (WTO) could ultimately do more harm than good, despite strong criticism that it violates...

The leaders of nine Mediterranean and southern European countries, including France's Emmanuel Macron and Italy's Giorgia Meloni, meet Friday (29 September) in Malta for talks set to focus on migration.

Europe’s net-zero goals will almost certainly not be achieved without significant deployment of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology, writes Chris Davies. Suggesting that use of CCS should be limited even before it has begun is hardly the best way to solve the climate crisis, he argues.

Ministers will reach a deal on a key migration law "in a few days", EU Commissioner for migration Ylva Johansson told journalists following a meeting of EU home affairs ministers on Thursday (27 September), despite significant disagreements persisting on key parts of the file.

NATO and Ukraine's industries will meet in the war-torn country on Friday (29 September) to hammer out a joint plan for producing weapons for the battlefield, as Kyiv is increasingly struggling to replenish its stocks.

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US Senator Bob Menendez pleaded not guilty on Wednesday (27 September) to charges of taking bribes from three New Jersey businessmen, while calls for his resignation from fellow Democrats are growing.

In Europe and in countries where coffee, cocoa, rubber, soy, palm oil, wood, beef and leather are produced, supply chain actors are busy preparing for the upcoming European Deforestation Regulation (EUDR)... Or they should be.

Belgium has launched a call for proposals to prepare its ports to import massive amounts of green hydrogen as part of its efforts to become a 'hydrogen gateway', Belgian Energy Minister Tinne Van der Straeten announced.

A few dozen companies from across NATO countries and partners have come together to address the growing threat to the alliance - the use of drones to hit military and infrastructure targets - as demonstrated by the events in Ukraine.

Ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh said on Thursday (28 September) they were dissolving the breakaway statelet they had defended for three decades, where more than half the population has fled since Azerbaijan launched a lightning offensive last week.

The declining rate of vaccinations for children in Amsterdam is causing concerns among policymakers, who are still puzzled as to whether this trend is related to the COVID-19 pandemic.