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Opportunities and Challenges Brought by Fit for 55 to the Chemical Industry – the Czech Example.

By I. Souček, J. Reiss, J. Suchý, D. Behenský – Association of Chemical Industry of the Czech Republic

European chemical industry reduced carbon dioxide emissions since 1990 already more than 50%. Using the “best available technologies” further improvement will require significant technology change associated with significant capital expenditures or electrification or capacity reduction. Being aware on further development of the European legislation, in particularly package Fit for 55 related to EU decarbonisation inspiring […]


The achievements of the Slovenian Presidency of the EU Council in Brussels

Prime Minister Janez Janša

Prime Minister Janez Janša presented some achievements of the Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the EU in Brussels. He first of all thanked the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, for their extremely fruitful cooperation. He welcomed the cooperation between all European […]


The European Parliament’s carbon footprint: towards carbon neutrality

by Georgios AMANATIDIS and Srdan RANDIC

The original full study[i] analyses the European Parliament’s (EP) carbon footprint in the context of the recent EP resolutions, in which it declared a climate emergency in Europe and requested the development of a strategy to become itself carbon-neutral by 2030. The analysis takes into account the various sources contributing to the EP’s greenhouse gas […]


Climate change, innovation: Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS)

Johan Van Overtveldt MEP (ECR/N-VA)- Chair of BUG Committee

Foreword by Johan Van Overtveldt, MEP (ECR/N-VA)- Chair of BUG Committee at the beginning of our interview: Climate change is a collective challenge. My party advocates and supports a sustainable transition that fosters competitiveness and welfare. We strongly believe that we need to achieve the necessary transitions in a growth scenario. We do not support […]


Fit for 55: the core pillars of our transport proposals

By Adina Vălean, European Commissioner for Transport

The package adopted on 14 July is ambitious, wide-ranging and impacts transport and its future from multiple angles. Against this backdrop we have included three proposals dedicated to work as the industrial backbone of the Fit for 55. More recharging infrastructure, technology neutral carbon intensity reductions and boosting alternative fuels markets through demand side measures are the core pillars of […]


Artificial Intelligence (AI) determines the current digital transformation as the key technology

Axel VOSS (EPP, Germany) MEP, Rapporteur for Report on AI in Digital Age

Artificial Intelligence (AI) determines the current digital transformation as the key technology. As a term encompassing a wide range of technologies that are guided by a given set of human-defined objectives and have some degree of autonomy in their actions, AI processes and responds to the data it receives, leading to learning, reasoning, planning, decision-making […]


Artificial Intelligence (AI), Europe can build strategic leadership in seven action areas

MEP Marcel Kolaja, Member and Quaestor of the European Parliament (Czech Pirate Party)

According to the 2021 review of the Coordinated Plan on Artificial Intelligence (AI), Europe can build strategic leadership in seven action areas – environment, health, robotics, public sector, home affairs, transport, and agriculture. It is more than clear that these fields will play a leading role in the following months, whether it is climate emergency […]


DIGITALEUROPE urges the EU and the US administration to set the targets

Cecilia Bonefeld-Dahl, Director-General of DIGITALEUROPE

Today, DIGITALEUROPE published a proposal of 24 targets for the EU-US Trade & Technology Council (TTC) urging the EU and the US administration to deliver on the promising goals set in June 2021. Following the publication of the new EU standardization strategy yesterday, and on the first anniversary of the Biden administration, it is time to reignite the transatlantic […]


Artificial Intelligence (AI) new ways of living and working

Cecilia Bonefeld-Dahl Director-General, DIGITALEUROPE

Digital knows no borders, and as we face bigger and bigger global challenges – cyber security, data ownership and access, climate change, supply chain shortages, online responsibilities – there has never been a more pressing time for international cooperation. Emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI) or the Internet of Things, and new ways of […]


Roberta Metsola elected new President of the European Parliament

Today, MEPs elected Roberta Metsola (EPP, MT) as President of the European Parliament until 2024, with 458 votes in the first round. Roberta Metsola won the election in the first voting round, where she received an absolute majority of 458 votes out of 690 cast in the remote secret vote, among three candidates. At the beginning […]