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EU to unveil emergency law to boost renewables over gas shortage fears
The European Fee is to place ahead a proposal for a brief mechanism to fast-track renewable tasks warning that the bloc is prone to miss its gasoline storage goal forward of subsequent winter.
This proposed “new emergency regulation” was introduced by Ursula von der Leyen to European lawmakers in Brussels on Wednesday and may permit the bloc to “exchange 14 bcm (billion cubic metres) of gasoline” in 2023.
The emergency regulation shall be made beneath Article 122 of the Treaty which permits the European Council, on the proposal of the Fee, to roll out measures to deal with extreme difficulties that come up within the provide of sure merchandise, particularly vitality.
Von der Leyen stated the mechanism, which is to “be restricted in time and scope”, is critical as a result of the subsequent gasoline filling season “shall be much more difficult” than the earlier one.
“Europe might fall quick by some 30 billion cubic metres of gasoline for filling our storages,” she warned.
This “appreciable threat” stems from a mixture of things together with additional disruption of Russian gasoline deliveries to Europe, and the doable incapacity for producers of liquified pure gasoline (LNG) to fill within the hole, particularly if financial progress in Asia means the area will improve its personal purchases of LNG.
The EU handed laws in June requiring EU nations to make sure their gasoline storage was crammed at 80% capability earlier than 1 November and to 90% capability earlier than the 2023/2024 winter season.
Russia reduce deliveries to the bloc by way of its Nord Stream 1 pipeline in late August, though it had already drastically reduce provides.
The EU has managed to search out different provides, largely by way of ship-delivered LNG and rolled out measures to save lots of gasoline to make sure its economic system might survive a traditional winter.
Gasoline storage is now crammed at round 95% capability.
The EU’s govt has additionally put ahead a €225 billion REPowerEU bundle to diversify its vitality sources and increase renewables and proposed one other replace to its Renewable Power Directive to additional improve the goal for the share of renewables within the vitality combine to 45% by 2030.
MEPs have already accepted the up to date Renewable Power Directive however von der Leyen deplored that “it’ll take time – effectively over a yr, earlier than it’s translated into nationwide legislation by all member states.”
The brand new mechanism, she stated, “shall be consistent with what you will have voted on.”
“Will probably be bridging the hole, till the brand new Renewable Power Directive comes into pressure. And by doing so, we will unlock a myriad of renewable tasks already within the subsequent 12 months. So this can be a very decisive transfer proper now.”
“In response to calculations by the Worldwide Power Company we might exchange 14 bcm of gasoline already subsequent yr. That’s virtually half of our potential hole, I used to be simply describing, simply by rushing up the allowing of those tasks. That is real looking and we will pull this off collectively,” she added.
Renewable vitality represented 22.1% of the vitality consumed within the EU in 2020, in response to knowledge from Eurostat.
Sweden had the best share, with 60.1% of its gross closing vitality consumption produced by renewables. It was adopted by Finland and Latvia (43.8% and 42.1% respectively) whereas Belgium, Luxembourg and Malta had been on the backside of the desk with decrease teen readings.
An estimated 50 Gigawatt (GW) of additional renewable vitality was put in throughout the EU in 2022, a brand new file and double the quantity rolled out the earlier yr.
“We might speed up much more. There are numerous renewable tasks which might be simply ready to be accepted. Some might ship low cost vitality instantly, in a matter of weeks or months,” von der Leyen instructed MEPs.
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Mexican mayor murdered less than a week after taking office
The mayor of a state capital in southern Mexico has been killed just one week after he took office, officials said Sunday.
Alejandro Arcos was sworn in last Monday as mayor of Chilpancingo, a city so violent that a drug gang openly staged a demonstration, hijacked a government armored car and took police hostage in 2023 to win the release of arrested suspects.
Chilpancingo is the capital of Guerrero state, where Acapulco is located.
The state prosecutors’ office issued a statement Sunday confirming Arcos had been killed, but provided no details.
SHOOTING NEAR LUXURY MEXICO RESORT LEAVES 1 DEAD, SUSPECTS FLEE ON JET SKIS Alejandro Moreno, the national leader of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, lamented Arcos’ killing and said the newly installed secretary of the city council had also been murdered three days earlier.
“They had been in office less than a week,” Moreno wrote on his social media accounts. “They were young and honest public servants who were seeking progress for their community.”
Chilpancingo has long been the scene of bloody turf battles between two drug gangs, the Ardillos and the Tlacos. The battle has resulted in dozens of gruesome killings and some high-profile scandals.
A previous mayor was caught on video apparently holding a meeting with leaders of one of the gangs at a restaurant. She was subsequently expelled from her party. In July 2023, federal officials said a demonstration held by hundreds of people in Chilpancingo that month had been organized by the Ardillos gang to win the release of two gang leaders arrested for drugs and weapons possession.
The demonstrators largely blocked all traffic on the highway between Mexico City and Acapulco for two days, battled security forces and commandeered a police armored truck and used it to ram down the gates of the state legislature building.
The demonstrators abducted 10 members of the state police and National Guard, as well as three state and federal officials, and held them hostage to enforce their demands before releasing them.
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Borrell-to-Kallas: Will EU lose its balance in its Middle East policy?
How can the EU break the current deadlock in the Middle East? And what stance can we expect from the EU’s next top diplomat, Kaja Kallas? Radio Schuman spoke to Martin Konecny, director of the European Middle East Project.
Monday marked a year since the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, which led Brussels to repeat its calls for a ceasefire and the immediate release of hostages.
One year later, Europe is still not on the same page, and in just a few weeks, Kaja Kallas, the former Estonian prime minister, will become the EU’s new foreign policy chief.
But Kallas is known to be less committed and outspoken on the Middle East than the current High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borell.
So, what can we expect from Kallas, and how can the EU break the current deadlock in the Middle East? Martin Konecny, director of the European Middle East Project, an independent civil society hub on EU policy towards Israel and Palestine is our guest today.
On the EU’s daily menu, get ready for a first taste of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s address to the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
Ahead of his big speech on Wednesday outlining his vision for Hungary’s six-month turn at the EU’s rotating presidency, Orbán will hold a press conference with MEP Kinga Gál at 2:30 pm today that could steal some of the limelight from a parliamentary debate on the EU’s car industry and… himself.
Lastly, Radio Schuman dives into one of the EU’s toughest challenges: a serious shortage of doctors, nurses and other healthcare pros. Curious about which countries rely most on foreign medical staff? Here’s a hint: Northern Europe’s where to look.
You can read the full story on Euronews Health.
Radio Schuman is hosted and produced by Maïa de la Baume, with journalist and production assistant Paula Soler, audio editing by Zacharia Vigneron and music by Alexandre Jas.
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