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We need regulatory coherence between the various EU objectives The Commission’s proposal to reform the ETS aims at drastically reduce the number of sectors on the carbon leakage list, by applying a purely one-size-fits-all quantitative formula that multiplies trade intensity …
Vous vous rappelez la publicité pour Canada Dry, « ça a la couleur de l’alcool, le goût de l’alcool, … mais ce n’est pas de l’alcool ». La réforme de la comitologie que nous propose la Commission est présentée comme …
You might remember the advert for Canada Dry : “It looks like alcohol, it tastes like alcohol…but it’s not alcohol.” The reform of comitology proposed by the Commission is presented as a reform, but it is nothing of the sort. …
During the COP22 in Marrakech, the international community has once again gathered to discuss its responsibilities in the fight against climate change, because to this day there is still no international regulatory system that is comprehensive and binding. There is …
Diverses têtes pensantes réfléchissent à une épineuse question : comment célébrer le 25 mars 2017 les 60 ans de la signature du Traité de Rome ? Si vous voulez mon avis, mieux vaudrait ne rien célébrer du tout. Je n’ai …
How should we celebrate 25th March 2017, the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome? Many people are asking themselves this tricky question. In my own opinion, it would be better not to celebrate anything at all. …
Il est décidément des hommes politiques qui se croient aptes à toutes les fonctions. Candidat malheureux à la Présidence de la Commission, M. Verhofstadt s’attaque avec le même insuccès à la Présidence du Parlement. Mais l’échec se double ici d’une …
Politicians always think they are able to perform in any job. A failed candidate for Commission President, Mr Verhofstadt has now stood for EP President, with the same success. But here, it is failure coupled with indignity. To win votes, …
The Boiler Efficiency Directive (92/42/EEC) talks about the efficiency need for new warm-water boilers. Seeing into bettering energy efficiency and reducing the release of carbon dioxide from standard. Lower temperature and gas condensing boilers (4 – 400 kW output). Apart …
Does anyone remember Antoine Wiertz? For the honest European, Belgian fin de siècle art can be summed up in three names: Ensor, Rops and Khnopff. But not Wiertz! What a pity, because Wiertz was a pioneer of symbolist art, a …