Tag: energy

EC President: Delay on Gas Price Cap is Unacceptable

Charles Michel is growing increasingly impatient with Ursula von der Leyen’s failure to come up with measures to blunt the pain of high energy costs inflicted on EU citizens and companies.

Rural Spain Sees Through the Scam of Renewable Energy

Locals have pulled back the curtain on the false promises of wind and solar, telling the dirty secrets of supposedly clean and green energy, and doing their best to form a democratic shield against technocrats and capitalists from Madrid to Brussels.

Energy Transition as Class Warfare and National Subordination

The new enclosures and ‘fourth industrial revolution’—with its counterfeit morality, its saccharine pseudo-ethical appeals to inclusivity and saving the planet—may not need a large force, but they do need a disciplined, dependent population.

EU’s von der Leyen’s State of the Union: High on Idealism

Fully decked out in Ukrainian colors, von der Leyen took to the EU Parliament’s stage, where she delivered her speech as Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska looked on. This year, it was not to be business as usual for the Commission head.

Energy, Inflation, and Taxes

This essay may not be a plug-and-play survival guide to inflation, but it should help to explain where you can go and what information you can find, in order to educate yourself on inflation, specifically energy costs.

Anti-Government Protests Spread Across Europe

A recent poll conducted by YouGov arrived at the conclusion that the sense of grievance among Europeans is so high that social unrest might become an unpleasant reality in the near future.

Liz Truss May Freeze Energy Bills

Despite spending much of the leadership campaign denouncing Sunak’s “handout” schemes and proposing generous tax cuts instead, now in government Truss seems to have U-turned.

Gazprom Halts Nord Stream 1 Gas Deliveries Indefinitely 

Gazprom’s purported technical issues mark the latest episode in what is fast becoming a long-running series of similar events—Gazprom has regularly invoked such issues as the reason for reducing gas flows into Germany and the rest of Europe.