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EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT HIT BY QATERGATE CORRUPTION SCANDAL
The European Parliament is reeling from the so-called ‘Qatargate’ cash-for-influence corruption and money laundering scandal that broke December 9 when Belgian police found over EUR1.5 million (USD1.6 million) cash in raids on locations across Brussels. In a December 15 resolution (1) on the suspicions of corruption by Qatar, passed by 541 votes in favour, two against, and three abstentions, members of the European Parliament (MEPs) agreed to suspend all work related to Qatar, notably on visa liberalisation and an aviation agreement, as well as to deny access to the Parliament for Qatari representatives.…
EUROPE’S TEXTILE COMPANIES CUT WATER USE TO LOWER ENERGY COSTS AND PREPARED FOR FUTURE WATER SCARCITY
European textile companies are working to ensure that future water scarcity problems will not affect their operations, notably by cutting water consumption and installing high quality waste treatment facilities, European Union (EU) experts have told World Textile Information Network (WTiN).
According to EU statistical agency Eurostat’s regional yearbook 2022 (1), EU water scarcity – chiefly seen in southern Europe, with Portugal’s textile industry particularly affected – is primarily driven by climate change and excessive water consumption.…
INFLATION AND ENERGY CRISIS POSING UNPRECEDENTED CHALLENGES TO GERMANY’S BEER SECTOR
Germany’s estimated 1,300 breweries are leaving the Covid-19 pandemic behind only to find themselves faced with skyrocketing energy prices and the affiliated rapid consumer price inflation. Several of large German brewery groups have already raised their prices to compensate for their past Coronavirus losses, and a second wave of price increases has recently been announced for early 2023.…
INFLATION CAUSES HUGE FOOD PRICE HIKE BUT CANS WILL SURVIVE, SAY EXPERTS
WORLDWIDE inflation is impacting the can making industry and its supply chain partners. Indeed, metal packaging prices have risen by at least 25% this year, according to industry association FoodDrinkEurope. A key reason has been soaring prices for energy used in manufacture, up more than 50% in 2022 according to the World Bank.…
EUROPE’S HYDROGEN ECONOMY IS GROWING, WITH MAJOR INVESTMENTS BEING RELEASED
WHEN European energy experts consider the future of hydrogen as an energy source, assessments sound remarkably like comments made about wind or solar power in the late 1990s – it is a great idea, but it would help if production and processing were less expensive.…
MAJOR EU RESEARCH PROJECT WILL BOOST CIRCULARITY IN TEXTILE PRODUCTION, SAY EXPERTS
The European textile industry is already working more sustainably but can do better, said Charlotte Denis, communications officer for the European Technology Platform for the Future of Textiles and Clothing (ETP). Her comments are particularly valid as the platform is a key partner in the new two-year research project CISUTAC (Circular and Sustainable Textiles and Clothing – www.cisutac.eu),…
EU SECTOR WANTS GLOBAL SUSTAINABLE RULES AND STANDARDS TO STAY COMPETITIVE
The European Union’s garment and textile industry pushed this Thursday, October 13, in Oporto, Portugal, for global rules to fight climate change to ensure fair competitiveness, with more international harmonisation of sustainable standards.
These wishes were expressed in the conference ‘Sustainability meets Competitiveness – how to square the circle?’,…
EU REGULATORY ROUND UP – HUNGARY THREATENED WITH LOSS OF EUR7.5 BILLION EU FUNDS OVER GRAFT CLAIMS
The European Commission has bitten the bullet and for the first time has imposed a major financial penalty on a European Union (EU) member state that it considers so corrupt, its handling of EU funds cannot be trusted. That country is Hungary, run by the populist right-wing government of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, where the EU executive on September 19 proposed suspending EUR7.5 billion in EU funding.…
UK-GERMANY NEUCONNECT INTERCONNECTOR COULD PROVIDE MODEL FOR CHEAP CLEAN ENERGY DISTRIBUTION
In late-July, the European Investment Bank (EIB) agreed on the financing structure of NeuConnect, the first ever energy link connecting Germany and the United Kingdom, two of the largest electricity markets in Europe. The investment to build the interconnector will amount to EUR2.8 billion, with the EIB set to contribute up to EUR400 million for the financing construction of the section within the European Union (EU).…
UK-GERMANY NEUCONNECT INTERCONNECTOR COULD PROVIDE MODEL FOR CHEAP CLEAN ENERGY DISTRIBUTION
The investment to build the interconnector will amount to EUR2.8 billion, with the EIB set to contribute up to EUR400 million for the financing construction of the section within the European Union (EU). Other financiers include the UK Infrastructure Bank, which will focus on the stretch within UK maritime and land territory, and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC).…