In brief | 22 July '25
Reuters:
Grants to go towards project "designed to assist with building Germany's and Europe's critical raw materials supply chain resilience."
Politico:
Biodiversity restoration is no longer ring-fenced in the EU budget. Campaigners fear that means green funds will flow to industrial programs.
Le Monde:
Nuclear energy is expected to top the agenda at the July 23 meeting in Berlin between the German chancellor and the French president.
Bloomberg:
Blistering heat is sweeping across southeast Europe this week, triggering weather alerts and stressing power grids.
Reuters:
Months of backtracking have left Europe's Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive in tatters.
Bloomberg:
ECB told France’s second-largest lender that it is among firms that may be fined after failing to meet the supervisor’s expectations for managing climate risks.
Financial Times:
Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ group experts quit after draft guidance on global warming plans "did not reflect the industry view".
Financial Times:
San Francisco start-up says modified fusion process could be used to produce gold from mercury.
