Energy and the Climate Crisis

Nuclear safety – a step in the right direction or a fallacy of EU action?

The first EU Directive on the safety of nuclear installations has just been published. It is a profoundly watered-down document that falls short even of existing international law. Its usefulness is disputable, at best. Precisely because this is such an important and clearly cross-border issue, (...)

Monday 20 July 2009

Climate Change Fever: Without a World Environmental Community Temperature Will Go Up!

As the economic downturn and the swine flu dominate the pages of newspapers, a lot more important issue, for it affects our long term survival in this planet, disappears from the media: the fight against climate change. In December the next United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (...)

Tuesday 19 May 2009

It’s Time… for a European Energy & Environmental Agency

JEF Europe condemns the position taken by the governments of some Member States of the European Union, including Italy and Poland, on the reduction of the CO2 emissions and the energy consumption as well as the promotion of renewable sources of energy by 2020 (20-20-20). These positions aim to (...)

Monday 27 October 2008

Yves Lecocq: “hunting for the conservation of biodiversity in Europe”

Interview with Dr. Yves LECOCQ, Secretary General of FACE, the Federation of Associations for Hunting and Biodiversity in the EU. [The New Federalist: Dr. LECOCQ, you are following European conservation and hunting politics since 1983. Could you briefly tell the readers some facts about your (...)

Saturday 6 September 2008

On the agenda: energy dialogue between the EU and producer countries

Due to the fact that EU imports around 40 % of oil from OPEC countries, it is understandable that the EU searches for a structured dialogue that would work to the advantage of its security of supply and transparency of the markets. This dialogue was agreed in 2004, with the first meeting taking (...)

Sunday 22 June 2008

At risk of losing the sense of snow

The Arctic’s indigenous are peoples who for centuries have depended solidly on their surrounding ecosystems for survival, and who in most cases still uphold their right to maintain this connection to the land. Today, their “sense” for the land – or rather, of the snow – and their traditional way of (...)

Saturday 17 May 2008

Climate Change Incites Mad Dash for Control over Arctic Ocean

While environmentalists deplore the negative effects of climate change, business interests are looking to capitalise upon a more lucrative corollary of global warming. The melting ice caps have prompted shipping magnates and oil and gas companies to lobby governments to adopt policies that help (...)

Tuesday 22 April 2008

The EU-US open sky agreement: a decisive first step

Since March 30, air transport between the EU and the US has undergone significant changes. The implementation of the first phase of the “Open Skies” agreement will create new possibilities for airlines and passengers alike. While recently Air France and Alitalia – two major European transporters- (...)

Wednesday 9 April 2008

A European Energy policy of small steps?

On 24 March 2006, the European Council approved the idea of an “energy policy for Europe”, proposed by the Commission. Two years later, how far has this policy come? An assessment of the policy on the occasion of the last European Council on 13 and 14 March highlights mitigated results: although (...)

Thursday 27 March 2008

A European government for the ecological revolution

The European Commission has approved a package called “Climate Action: Energy for a Changing World”, a set of proposals on emission of greenhouse gases, energy and climate change. The objectives that need to be implemented by the Member States are very ambitious as well as the spending necessary (...)

Sunday 2 March 2008

On Global Politics and Petropolitics

How many billion dollars have the big oil companies spent in financing campaigns that presented nuclear energy as a too dangerous option? How much money for presenting bio-fuels and hydrogen as if they were good only for science-fiction books? How many dollars in delaying investigations on (...)

Sunday 27 January 2008

Arctic Oil and the Law of the Seize

There is a touch of the 19th century scramble to divide Africa among European colonial powers in Russia’s decision to drop a capsule containing a Russian flag on the Arctic sea floor not far from the North Pole on 2 August 2007. In preparation for the 1885 Berlin Conference which was to draw the (...)

Tuesday 8 January 2008
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