energy crisis
For many, Scandinavia is synonymous with social democracy, high union density, public ownership, and progressive governments inclined to climate action and sustainable policies. A recent study tour to Norway and Denmark, hosted by Rosa Luxemburg Foundation’s New York and Brussels offices, found that both countries still struggle with entrenched interests – local and international – holding back a genuine “just transition”.
The five-day study tour in October brought ten experts – legislators, researchers, and activists – ...
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While the EU talks about just transition and energy autonomy, we are paying the price for the political choice to put energy supply in the hands of privatised energy multinationals and their financiers. The amount of money these companies invest in the energy transition are a fraction of the exorbitant profits from high energy prices they pay to their shareholders. The EU put the climate transition central in its strategy and policy agenda with the European Green Deal and the Recovery Fund. However, these investment plans rely on using public money ...
read more "How Europe can rein in rampant fossil capital"
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An analysis of the Spanish government’s response to the cost-of-living crisis
Just as the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic finally seemed to be behind us, the war in Ukraine that began in February 2022 sent the world economy into another tailspin. With Russian gas now tainted by Putin’s invasion, Europe acted quickly to abandon what had until then been its most important source of cheap fuel — with skyrocketing prices as the result.
Since then, European consumers have found themselves paying energy bills that are two, three, or even four times higher than ...
read more "Capping Prices, Taxing Profits"
read more "Capping Prices, Taxing Profits"