In brief | 14 November '24
Euractiv:
Germany's conservative CDU/CSU, led by Friedrich Merz, is expected to win the snap election on 23 February according to the latest polls but remains at odds on energy and climate policy with its most likely coalition partner: Olaf Scholz鈥檚 Social Democrats (SPD).
Dezernat Zukunft:
Report authors estimate that an additional 782 billion euros of public financing will be needed by 2030 to achieve widely accepted goals in education, decarbonisation, digitisation, research, health, transport, housing, internal security, climate adaptation, economic resilience, defence and further aspects of external security. This would amount to an average of around 3 percent of GDP per year.聽
FT:
-Deutsche Energy Terminal was instructed not to receive a Russian LNG shipment which was set to soon arrive, the FT reported
-The EU has kept importing Russian LNG despite Ukraine war
FT:
Azerbaijan鈥檚 President Ilham Aliyev lashes out at Emmanuel Macron and steps up defence of oil and gas as regional countries dominate guest list.
European Commission:
Commission calls on Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechia, Estonia, Greece, Croatia, Cyprus, Malta, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia and Slovakia to urgently submit their final updated National Energy and Climate Plans.
