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Happy 1st birthday to the #Draghi report! 🎂

In 12 months, we’ve seen:
📉 Lower climate ambition
🗑️ Scrapped safeguards & deregulation
🛑 Decarbonisation delays
💥 Dirty EU-US deals

So much for competitiveness through sustainability. Does not sound like the green industrial policy Draghi called for.

470 organisations denounce deregulation campaign ahead of State of the Union speech Instead of driving a bold green industrial policy, the EU is surrendering to the polluting industries demanding deregulation and delay. Watering down the 2040 climate target and dismantling…

Our protection is being sold for profits.

Ahead of Von Der Leyen's 'State of the Union' speech tomorrow, 470 organisations are calling a stop to the EU's drastic deregulation spree on environmental protection, social rights, digital rights and climate policies back many years.

Zero industrie door klimaatbeleid? Het tegendeel is waar Europa moet beleidsmatig koers houden, de energietransitie versnellen en de beschikbare middelen opschalen. Een rondje touwtrekken over de nationale verdeelsleutel of het uithollen van cruciale beleid...

Verfrissend om de reactie te zien van @gregvanelsen.bsky.social en @yelter.bsky.social, mensen met kennis van zaken, op de opinie van Noels die de bal compleet misslaat met zijn oproep om industrieel beleid te nationaliseren. 1/2 www.tijd.be/opinie/algem...

Commission's proposal for the EU's next long-term budget leaves gaps in climate and nature.

We need #MFF with:
1️⃣Horizontal mainstreaming targets and earmarking for climate and nature
2️⃣Better implementation of the ‘Do No Significant Harm’ (DNSH) principle
3️⃣Finance for a socially just transition

EU's next long-term budget: Commission's proposal leaves gaps in climate and nature 16 July 2025 — Today, the European Commission presented its proposal for the next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), laying out a draft of the spending priorities for the EU’s 2028–2034 budget cyc...

Every single budgetary decision from now to 2040 is vital for our planet.

This one falls short on climate and nature — but luckily, this is just the start of the marathon called MFF.

Read our reaction to @ec.europa.eu's first proposal for the EU long-term budget ⬇️

Press Release: Deregulation drive risks dismantling the rules that protect people and the planet - CAN Europe Brussels, 10 June 2025. As the Commission moves forward with a deregulation drive in favour of corporate interests, Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe today co-organised a high-level event — “Rules…

📢 Protect people over corporate interests! At today’s high-level event, civil society, trade unions and key policymakers are coming together to oppose the Commission’s dangerous deregulation drive that threatens vital social & environmental safeguards.
Read our press release 👇

#RulesToProtect

EU’s Clean Industrial Deal still falls short 100 days in Greg Van Elsen is senior industrial policy co-ordinator at Climate Action Network Europe The European Commission promised an answer to geoeconomic competition; the reality risks being deregulation tha...

❌ EU’s Clean Industrial Deal still falls short 100
days in.
In @sustainableviews.bsky.social, our Senior Industrial Policy Coordinator Greg Van Elsen unpacks why the CID lacks the concrete action needed for real industrial transformation.
👉 Read the piece: www.sustainableviews.com/eus-clean-in...

Clean Industrial Deal: course correction needed for a Green and Just Transition - CAN Europe Brussels, 3 June 2025 — One hundred days after the launch of the Clean Industrial Deal (CID), implementation of the EU’s flagship initiative to decarbonise industry still falls short of its promised…

🌱⚙️ 100 days in, the EU’s Clean Industrial Deal is still falling short of its promised results. With today’s ITRE vote and the upcoming Parliament resolution, there's still a need for a democratic push to get the Deal back on track for a green and just transition.
Read our press release 👇

Is the EU now gaming its climate targets? The European Commission is once again delaying its proposal for the European Climate Law amendment to set a 2040 climate target. Behind the missed deadlines lies a more concerning trend, warn Climate…

🌍 The EU's #2040Target risks becoming a patchwork of loopholes: backloading, carbon offsets, inflated removals & sectoral swaps.

📉 These aren't tweaks, they are dangerous shortcuts that undermine trust, ambition & global leadership.

Read more:

EU exploring weaker 2040 climate goal The European Commission wants to keep a 90 percent emissions-cutting target but to change how countries calculate their progress.

Accepting international credits as part of EU climate targets would be detrimental to innovation and to many companies and investors counting on a reasonably high ETS price. www.politico.eu/article/eu-e... @ecfr.eu

Why defunding NGOs would lock in a European 'Greenwash' Deal Environmental NGOs — understaffed, underpaid and undervalued — are the only actors fighting back to accelerate the green transition. A bonfire of their budgets, led by the same politicians that parrot...

Important article calling out that some in Europe wish to build on the authoritarian playbook and undermine civil society, and with it, democratic resilience...It doesn't only happen "over there". We need a clear resistance to these attacks also in Europe. euobserver.com/eu-political...

A quick calculation to cool down this hot take (sorry)

total amount of extra tanks needed (recent Brueghel report) = 1400*50 ton/tank= 70K ton of steel. Total EU steel production ca 130 million ton. So you've got a burning lead market of 0,05% of total output.

The ‘critical minerals’ rush could result in a resource war Labelling justifies a preference for strong-arm tactics over co-operation

The ‘critical minerals’ rush could result in a resource war - on.ft.com/4inWXO3 via @FT

When is an EU 'dialogue' actually a monologue? Just because it has ‘industry’ in its name doesn’t mean the new EU policy agenda should be dictated by industry executives.

Commission's "Strategic Steel Dialogue" seems more like a monologue, with no seat for civil society at the table.

Transition to the green steel needs fair debate, not backroom deals.

📝 @chiaramartinelli.bsky.social & @patricktenbrink.bsky.social write at @euobserver.com ⬇️

President von der Leyen will hold Strategic Dialogue on Steel on 4 March, and announces Steel and Metals Action Plan As announced by President von der Leyen on 7 February, the European Commission will set up a Strategic Dialogue on Steel aimed at charting a decisive course for the future of the European steel indust

⁉️Strategic Steel Dialogue kicks off today and civil society was supposedly invited.

🤬But guess if we are at the table? NO, WE ARE NOT!

⛔Corporate capture instead of ensuring public interest, climate action & social justice are at the heart of the steel transition. @ec.europa.eu

Who gets to decide on the #cleanindustrialdeal? That’s what NGOs are asking on the day that Von der Leyen presents her industrial plans and the #omnibus deregulation project in Antwerp, with @tychovh.bsky.social @gregvanelsen.bsky.social

Clean Industrial Deal: Climate and decarbonisation ambitions not matched by concrete proposals - CAN Europe Brussels, 26 February 2025 — Today, the European Commission unveiled its flagship policy package, including the Clean Industrial Deal, the Action Plan for Affordable Energy and the first part of the O...

🚨BIG DAY: Clean Industrial Deal, Action Plan for Affordable Energy & Omnibus package🚨

👍We welcome the commitments on the 2040 target, circularity and renewable energy expansion...

👎BUT beyond that, the package crumbles under scrutiny.

⬇️ Read more on our @caneurope.org reaction ⬇️

Pollution from Big Tech’s data centre boom costs US public health $5.4bn Research suggests the price of treating illnesses related to building of computing infrastructure in the US is on the rise

Pollution from Big Tech’s data centre boom costs US public health $5.4bn - on.ft.com/3QQR5Rz via @FT

📣 “Clean industrial” myths debunked

While claiming they need 💶 for the energy transition, big industry is feeding shareholders the bulk of its profit pie.

Read the new investigation by @somoamsterdam.bsky.social and us:
friendsoftheearth.eu/publication/...

5/ The fight starts now. Let’s make sure the Clean Industrial Deal lives up to its name

4/ If the EU gets this right, we can future-proof European industries and tackle the climate crisis head-on. If we get it wrong, we risk locking in outdated, polluting models for another generation.

3) CID needs to deliver on 5 key pillars
✅ Align policies with climate ambition
✅ Build resilience—cut energy & resource demand, phase out fossils.
✅ Put people & quality jobs first
✅ Invest in the future—public money must support real green industry
✅ Ensure transparent, inclusive governance

2/ The Clean Industrial Deal (CID) is just the starting point. What’s unveiled on Feb 26 will shape the EU’s industrial future. Civil society must stay vigilant—holding policymakers accountable while preparing the ground for real progressive change.

1/ After decades of neglect, industrial policy is finally back on the EU agenda. This is a huge opportunity to steer the climate & energy transition in the right direction. But it’s also a moment of risk. Will it serve people & the planet—or corporate interests?

🚨 Big day for industrial policy in Europe! 🚨

Excited to see @caneurope.org position on the Clean Industrial Deal out in the world.🛠️🌍 #CleanIndustrialDeal
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🔁 Europe must lead in climate ambition, and that starts with a strong framework and a clear long-term vision.

@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu, the clock is ticking. It’s time to take responsibility and deliver!

#ClimateActionNow #2040Target

Regulitis, really? - CAN Europe Written by Yelter Bollen, Policy expert Climate & Financing at Bond Beter Leefmilieu and Greg Van Elsen, Policy Lead on Clean Industrial Deal at CAN Europe The European Commission’s Competitiveness Co...

⚠️Is regulation really stifling Europe’s economy, or just an easy scapegoat? The European Commission’s Competitiveness Compass promises to cut 25% of today’s regulatory burden claiming it holds back EU’s economy.
Read more🔗
caneurope.org/regulitis-re...
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The EU’s Competitiveness Compass needs funding and ambitious legislation to work While Donald Trump’s second administration turns its back on climate action, Europeans can gain a competitive advantage through funding and developing low-carbon technologies. This requires targeted i...

ecfr.eu/article/the-...

Commission's compass requires calibration: EU needs a net-zero industrial strategy but not deregulation CAN Europe regrets that the Commission takes a dangerous misstep by framing regulation as the primary obstacle to competitiveness. It is not the rules that protect people, climate and the environment ...

🚨 Competitiveness Compass is out 🚨

Commission takes a big misstep by framing regulation as an obstacle to competitiveness. It is not the rules protecting people, climate & environment that hold companies back, but the lack of investment & high energy prices driven by the EU’s fossil gas dependency.

Mapping a path to EU competitiveness In today’s episode of The Jolt, Kira looks at a leaked draft of the European Union’s Competitiveness Compass and why it matters, plus United States President Donald Trump is already having an impact o...

I enjoyed talking to Foresightmedia on what to expect from the #CompetitivenessCompass, 'the North Star' guiding EU policies over the next five year. Might need some serious recalibration, press statement tomorrow
foresightmedia.com/story/sGZDVo...