Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Beyond Burning: Finland’s Rapid Shift in District Heating. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Join us for a deep dive into Finnish District Heating (DH) innovation. Find out how Finland is rapidly decarbonizing its heating sector, using cheap wind power, electric boilers, and cutting-edge thermal storage technology. This webinar will showcase why Finland is a blueprint for the EU's Heating and Cooling Strategy.

What you’ll learn 👇

💡 How Finland is scaling renewable, non-combustion heat
💪 Key success factors: finance, innovation, partnerships
📈 Market dynamics: electricity prices & sector integration

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See you there!

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🔥 Webinar alert!
Beyond Burning: Finland’s rapid shift in district heating

📅 21 April
⏰ 16:00–17:30 CEST

Finland is transforming its heating system – with up to 26% already coming from non-combustion sources. 🧵👇

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Geopoliticization and Support for Free Trade in the European Parliament: From Rhetorical Shift to Voting Results Strategic and security considerations have become increasingly prominent in trade policy debates, fuelling both liberal and protectionist arguments. However, the extent to which this…

📖 Read now: '#Geopoliticization and Support for Free #Trade in the #European Parliament: From Rhetorical Shift to Voting Results' by @loranevisart.bsky.social

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🔌 Europe’s fossil fuel dependence remains a vulnerability. Diversifying imports won’t fix it: it just shifts the risk.

Enter “independence kits”!

Tailored combinations of clean heat solutions, from heat pumps to solar, designed for each household. 🧵👇

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The days when US defended freedom & democracy globally are gone. The only power left who can take that role & who have the size to sit at the same table as US, China & India, is when we band together in EU.
That should be the takeaway.

But EU was not made to be a hard power, so #reform

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#EUsky

Opinion: Germany’s Building Modernisation Act leaves households exposed as government sidelines the heating transition In February, the German government presented a new national heating plan, the Building Modernisation Act, meant to replace the heating provisions under the Building Energy Act. The new plan would […]

A new op-ed by our director @tomvasseur.bsky.social, and Barbara Metz, director of @umwelthilfe.bsky.social explores why Germany’s proposed heating reform risks undermining the transition at a critical moment. 🇩🇪

#EnergySky #EUSky 🧵👇

In EUs hurry to buy gas from #Azerbaijan it ignores that its a dictatorship.
#EUsky

🎯💯 Make #NATO run by EUrope, & offer membership to Ukraine, Moldova, Armenia, Georgia, Kosovo etc as we should have, if not Merkel valued cheap Russian gas.

Now we are in the situation where Ukraine has the most modern & fighting army - combine that with EUs eco & arms production.
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#EUsky #EYdef

🎯💯 We, EU when faces with poly crisis is not doing so poorly after all, & that is something to celebrate.

Also, while things in history happens overnigth when we read about it, in reality it takes more time & that is how the sausage is made, in the transition to the new reality.

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Zwischen NATO und EU: Debatte um Europas Verteidigungsstrategie Die EU-Kommission will eine nahezu unbekannte Klausel aus dem EU-Vertrag wiederbeleben - sie verpflichtet zu gegenseitiger Hilfe bei Angriffen. Doch interne Protokolle, die Report Mainz und dem Spiege...

As predicted: EU defence debate is accelerating. As Merz signaled already. Divisions remain, but pressure is rising. And Austria? EU membership already softened its neutrality long ago - this debate makes it visible. Europe is redefining security. #EuSky 🇪🇺

www.tagesschau.de/investigativ...

Sustainable, affordable, and renewable: energy independence starts at home By Bianca Bittencourt and Tom Vasseur – About accelerating clean heating and scaling up investment to cut fossil fuel dependence and secure affordable energy for European households.

⚡🔌♨️ 77.6% of the EU's homes' energy use goes to heating. Deploying clean heat is not optional: it’s strategic. Energy independence starts at home.

Our article at #EUSEW lays out how to make sustainable, affordable, and renewable heating a reality.

Read at:

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How Europe should respond to the Iran gas shock – and how it shouldn’t The European Union should act now to head off growing impacts from the Iran conflict on gas prices and availability

Bruegel once again eloquently stating the obvious 🧵

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www.bruegel.org/analysis/how...

“Some governments are actively dismantling democracy at home,” the report says. “Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy and Slovakia are the most concerning, as they are actively eroding the institutions that safeguard it.”

Today that not only enable more corruption etc, but for #Russia.

#EUsky

🔌💡⚡ EU energy ministers gather to tackle the energy crisis; while many measures might be discussed, the root cause lingers: for Europe to establish its energy independence, it is necessary to ensure decarbonised, renewable, and affordable solutions for households across Europe.

#EnergySky #EUSky

The role of procedural fairness in EU legitimacy: Lessons from the Spitzenkandidaten process | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core The role of procedural fairness in EU legitimacy: Lessons from the Spitzenkandidaten process

(1/9) Can the EU be seen as more legitimate through procedural reforms? The lead candidate system for president of the European Commission was one such attempt.
In a new article, @acgoldberg.bsky.social, @pieterdewilde.bsky.social and I have sobering results:
doi.org/10.1017/S147...
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Where are the uproar in EUrope? We still act like they are our allies and benefit from our trade...

I'm lost for words. This is beyond sick.

#EUsky #dkpol

In den Gesprächen präsentierten die Bewerbenden ihre Motivation, ihr Interesse an Europapolitik und ihre Perspektiven für #Europa. Wir wünschen allen Bewerberinnen und Bewerbern viel Erfolg! #EUSky #EurSky #BildungEU

🎓Die Auswahlkommission für das @collegeofeurope.bsky.social kommt diese Woche im Generalsekretariat der #EBD zusammen, um die deutschen Bewerberinnen und Bewerber für das kommende Studienjahr auszuwählen. 🇪🇺 Die @netzwerk-ebd.de organisiert das Verfahren seit 1949 & begleitet die Studierenden. #EUSky

Conservative governments refuse to implement legislation because “markets must decide”, but their allies in the #EP sabotage the only market mechanism for home decarbonisation and supporting vulnerable households.

#ETS #EUETS #ClimateAction #EnergyTransition #SocialClimateFund #EUSky #EnergySky

🚨 Leaked compromise amendments for #ETS2 reveal major concession to fossil gas in homes 💡🔌

European Parliament shadows in the ENVI committee secretly reached a deal before their colleagues had even finished drafting... 🧵👇

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🎯💯 While this has been clear to many Europeans outside governing circles, its now also begins to permeate governments.

The US is a rouge state, & the only thing that can stand against it, is the EU. Thats a rewiring of EUropean security & policy.

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#dkpol #EUsky #EUdef

are rogue nuclear armed states.
We all know what is really going on.

Time to decouple from them and treat them as we do Russia for the same transgressions.

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#EUsky #EUdef

"We get smartest and greenest through the new looming energy crisis by targeting help to those who absolutely need it most. And remember who's making off the crisis." says Laurence Tubiana in an interview with a Danish paper.

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#EUsky #EnergyCrisisIran

Europäische Bewegung Deutschland Das größte Netzwerk für Europapolitik in Deutschland. 234 Mitgliedsorganisationen aus Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft. Gegründet 1949.

Weitere Analyse des #EUCO im heutigen EBD DE-Briefing: netzwerk-ebd.de/aktuelles/na... Die #EU muss jetzt Wege finden, ihre Unterstützung für die #Ukraine verlässlich sicherzustellen. 🇺🇦🇪🇺 #EUSky

Der Zerstörer: Die EU verzweifelt am Wahlkämpfer Orban Ungarns Premier Viktor Orban hat seine Zusage für den Ukraine-Kredit zurückgezogen. 25 EU-Staaten sind empört - und ratlos.

🇪🇺 Rückblick auf den #EUCO: Die Blockade durch Viktor Orbán belastet Europas Handlungsfähigkeit spürbar.
👉 #EBDGenSek @huettemann.eu betont gegenüber @reuters.com: www.cash.ch/news/top-new... #EUSky

Heute sind wir zu Gast beim @dgb.de für unser EBD De-Briefing #EUCO mit dem #Bundeskanzleramt ➡️ Die Themen des letzten @consilium.europa.eu u.a.: die Kriege in Nahost und Ukaine, fin. Unterstützung der 🇺🇦 #EU, #Wettbewerbsfähigkeit sowie Sicherheit, Verteidigung & Migration #EBDanalyse #EUSky

Again socialist mayor in Paris. Far right wins riviera. #FRinEU

First time green mayor in Munich. CDU wins Rhineland-Palatinate #DEinEU

And Liberals ahead in #SIinEU

Democracy everywhere... #EUsky

Potzblitz, as we say in German...

This is less a surprise than a pattern. The real question is why the EU still tolerates this behaviour at summit level. #strategiccorruption #HUinEU #EUSky

That should be the test for the Chancellery de-brief: not only whether the summit set the right priorities, but whether Germany is ready to back the institutional changes needed to make those priorities stick. Europe’s credibility depends on implementation, not rhetoric. #EuSky