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Since Russia invaded Ukraine, EU Member States have made serious efforts to reduce their dependence on Russian energy imports. To broaden the range of energy suppliers, the European Commission and the Member States' national governments have signed new agreements with non-EU countries and strengthened their pledges with existing partners. Norway is the world's fifth largest oil and third largest natural gas exporter, accounting for 2 % of global crude oil production and 3 % of global natural gas ...

Since Russia invaded Ukraine, EU Member States have made serious efforts to reduce their dependence on Russian energy imports. To broaden the range of energy suppliers, the European Commission and EU national governments have signed new agreements with non-EU countries and strengthened their pledges with existing partners. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a member of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). The economy of Saudi Arabia is the largest ...

Quest'anno la Giornata internazionale della donna sarò celebrata nel contesto della guerra della Russia in Ucraina. Il conflitto, che ha portato con sé la minaccia di carenze energetiche, ha esacerbato gli effetti inflazionistici della ripresa dopo la pandemia, portando a una crisi del costo della vita in Europa. In occasione di questa giornata, la commissione per i diritti delle donne e l'uguaglianza di genere (FEMM) del Parlamento ha organizzato una riunione con i parlamenti nazionali il 1º marzo ...

On 30 September 2022, the Council of the European Union agreed an urgent regulation to address the problem of very high energy prices in the EU. The Council regulation would raise revenues for Member States to compensate energy consumers for rising prices. Firstly, Member States would receive the excess revenues of electricity generators that rely on cheaper 'inframarginal' energy technologies. These companies are obtaining windfall revenues from high electricity prices caused by the exceptional ...

Durante la tornata di aprile 2022 il Parlamento voterà il testo di un regolamento RTE-E riveduto, concordato nei negoziati di trilogo alla fine del 2021. Il regolamento RTE-E definisce le norme per i progetti di interesse comune (PIC) nelle infrastrutture energetiche. I PIC sono progetti prioritari che apportano notevoli benefici al mercato unico o migliorano la sicurezza dell'approvvigionamento nell'UE; alcuni di essi sono ammissibili al finanziamento dell'UE. Il regolamento RTE-E riveduto imporrebbe ...

The EU's binding climate and energy legislation for 2030 requires Member States to adopt national energy and climate plans (NECPs) for the 2021-2030 period. In October 2020, the European Commission published an assessment for each NECP. Estonia submitted its NECP in December 2019. Estonia recovered its independence in 1991 and joined the European Union in 2004. In the 1990s, the country launched structural reforms related to its transition to a market-based economy. In 2019, its total GHG emissions ...

Energy security is increasingly occupying a top spot on the EU’s foreign policy agenda. The unconventional oil and gas revolution, OPEC’s supply response, increased global Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) trade, persistent concerns about the reliability of Russian gas supplies and the need to expand low carbon energies such as renewables to address climate change pose opportunities and challenges to European energy security. The EU has upgraded the issue with its flagship Energy Union communication and ...

Within the current debate on unconventional gas and oil resources in Europe, the European Parliament organised a workshop to discuss the impacts of shale gas and shale oil extraction on the environment and on human health, ways of mitigating them and the appropriateness of the current EU legislative framework in the context of the future developments in this field.

Compilation of three briefing papers analyzing the current and proposed emergency oil stock regime in the EU.