Frans Timermans. Photo: Thierry Monasse / Bloomberg – Natural gas prices in Europe are breaking record after record. Britain is facing a shortage of energy supplies, evoking memories of discontent since the late 1970s. Chinese factories are closing due to lack of electricity, and the prospects are getting gloomier, writes Irina Slav in a comment … Read more
The Commission also mentioned some longer-term steps, including the possible joint purchase of gas or the expansion of storage capacity. However, other fundamental demands of states, such as the reform of the electricity market or the regulation of emission allowance prices, have not been heard by the EU executive. The several-year-on-year rise in gas and … Read more
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – The European Commission, the executive body of European Union, announced that they will require all smartphone and device manufacturers to support USB-C connections. Quoted from The Verge website, this is to uniform data connections and charging on devices while reducing electronic waste. The electronic waste referred to by the European Commission here … Read more
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Liputan6.com, Jakarta – The European Commission, which is the executive branch of the European Union, has just announced its plans to make manufacturing mandatory smartphone and other electronic equipment use USB Type-C ports for charging purposes. In this proposed proposal, the European Commission simply states the obligation to use port USB Type-C for wired charging … Read more
Photo: gov.pl Polish Prime Minister did not go to the summit in Budapest due to the conflict with the Czech Republic – – Warsaw is trying to resolve the dispute with Prague, relying on existing “legal and political instruments”. Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki did not go to the IV Budapest Demographic Summit amid the … Read more
Photo: twitter.com/ZelenskyyUa Zelensky discussed with the head of the European Commission the preparation of the Ukraine-EU summit – – The summit is scheduled for October 12. Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Ursula von der Leyen discussed preparations for the event. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with the head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen … Read more
– The European Commission is preparing new tobacco legislation. It is about to tighten their taxes, educate consumers and reduce the number of smokers in the European Union to a minimum. The revision of the Tobacco Products Directive is intended to ensure this. Smokers can probably expect their favorite products to rise in price soon. … Read more
Ško-Energo, which supplies energy to the Mladá Boleslav carmaker, is now waiting for the project to be approved by its partners. In addition to Škoda Auto, among them are the Volkswagen Group or the energy companies E.ON and ČEZ Esco. “For the final decision, we need to have a completed economic balance sheet, which will … Read more
The European Commission and AstraZeneca have ended their months-long legal dispute. The British-Swedish pharmaceutical company will deliver 200 million doses of its corona vaccine by the end of March 2022. The Commission announced this on Friday morning. – The agreement foresees that AstzaZeneca will deliver 135 million doses to EU member states by the end … Read more
The French plant with around 750 employees has to be sold to Alstom, because otherwise, according to the European Commission, it would have too dominant a position on the market. The transaction between Alstom and Bomrardier will lead to the creation of the second largest rolling stock manufacturer in the world, after the Chinese giant … Read more