Jack Schickler
@jackschickler.bsky.social
Obtained by Contexte. Managing editor for energy. Previously Euronews, CoinDesk, MLex and general policy wonk. Brussels-based. Tips? https://about.contexte.com/eu/secure-contact
Lads I just saw the best sign ever
December 26, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Lads I just saw the best sign ever
Reposted by Jack Schickler
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Quiz - Jouez à Bioguess, le cadeau de Noël de Contexte
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December 22, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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✍️ Yann Guégan
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Already finished off the Ferrero Rocher? Run out of excuses for hiding from the in-laws? Worried your EU nerdiness will wear off over the holidays?
Play BioGuess, a Christmas game by Contexte: www.contexte.com/eu/article/e...
Play BioGuess, a Christmas game by Contexte: www.contexte.com/eu/article/e...
Quiz - BioGuess: a Christmas game by Contexte - Contexte
Every day over the holidays, the devious elves at Contexte Games will release the biographies of two well-known, or less well-known, EU personalities — with the details greyed out. Try to unmask them ...
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December 22, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Already finished off the Ferrero Rocher? Run out of excuses for hiding from the in-laws? Worried your EU nerdiness will wear off over the holidays?
Play BioGuess, a Christmas game by Contexte: www.contexte.com/eu/article/e...
Play BioGuess, a Christmas game by Contexte: www.contexte.com/eu/article/e...
Reposted by Jack Schickler
I also want to say thank you to the person who introduced me to the French word 'beaucoup' this year. It means a lot.
December 19, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I also want to say thank you to the person who introduced me to the French word 'beaucoup' this year. It means a lot.
Contexte is hiring! For an English-language EU energy reporter, based in Brussels.
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December 17, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Contexte is hiring! For an English-language EU energy reporter, based in Brussels.
If you're a scoop-hungry, teamworky, sharp storyteller, with knowledge of the EU and/or energy policy, apply within: lhttps://www.welcometothejungle.com/fr/companies/contexte/jobs/energy-policy-reporter_bruxelles
If you're a scoop-hungry, teamworky, sharp storyteller, with knowledge of the EU and/or energy policy, apply within: lhttps://www.welcometothejungle.com/fr/companies/contexte/jobs/energy-policy-reporter_bruxelles
In today's Contexte EU energy briefing:
🔌 Full analysis of the the EU's leaked grids package
🛣️ The 8 "energy highways" the Commission will prioritise
🐼 Leaked "environment omnibus" plans to streamline permits
🇺🇦 The final legislative text banning Russian gas
www.contexte.com/briefing/202...
🔌 Full analysis of the the EU's leaked grids package
🛣️ The 8 "energy highways" the Commission will prioritise
🐼 Leaked "environment omnibus" plans to streamline permits
🇺🇦 The final legislative text banning Russian gas
www.contexte.com/briefing/202...
Contexte
Deep information.
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December 8, 2025 at 10:40 AM
In today's Contexte EU energy briefing:
🔌 Full analysis of the the EU's leaked grids package
🛣️ The 8 "energy highways" the Commission will prioritise
🐼 Leaked "environment omnibus" plans to streamline permits
🇺🇦 The final legislative text banning Russian gas
www.contexte.com/briefing/202...
🔌 Full analysis of the the EU's leaked grids package
🛣️ The 8 "energy highways" the Commission will prioritise
🐼 Leaked "environment omnibus" plans to streamline permits
🇺🇦 The final legislative text banning Russian gas
www.contexte.com/briefing/202...
They did it via a shell company
It was not quite the Louvre heist, but for a village in northeastern France, the recent theft of more than $100,000 worth of escargot from a local farm, just as prime holiday snail-eating season begins, was pretty close.
Snail Theft Hits France Before Holiday Rush
Shop owners say the thieves who took 990 pounds of snails must have been escargot cognoscenti.
nyti.ms
December 4, 2025 at 12:57 PM
They did it via a shell company
Rule number one of crisis comms: put everything out there. Yet it's hard not to conclude that one of these two people, Commission senior official Sannino or anonymous spokesperson, is being deliberately misleading here.
(from @eddywax.bsky.social and @nicolettaionta.bsky.social)
(from @eddywax.bsky.social and @nicolettaionta.bsky.social)
December 4, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Rule number one of crisis comms: put everything out there. Yet it's hard not to conclude that one of these two people, Commission senior official Sannino or anonymous spokesperson, is being deliberately misleading here.
(from @eddywax.bsky.social and @nicolettaionta.bsky.social)
(from @eddywax.bsky.social and @nicolettaionta.bsky.social)
The Commission will propose something to the Commission? Now that's what I call a #circulareconomy
December 3, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The Commission will propose something to the Commission? Now that's what I call a #circulareconomy
My Charles and Di wedding mug (age 41) has outlasted my Charles coronation mug (age 2 and a half). Not sure what to make of this fact
December 3, 2025 at 11:46 AM
My Charles and Di wedding mug (age 41) has outlasted my Charles coronation mug (age 2 and a half). Not sure what to make of this fact
The cosmetics store round the corner is offering astonishingly bad advice
November 26, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The cosmetics store round the corner is offering astonishingly bad advice
Who wore it better?
November 25, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Who wore it better?
Two bangers published today by @energy.contexte.com:
🇧🇷 COP30: A post mortem of a disappointing summit. @genicotd.bsky.social & @vrg.bsky.social, from Belém, unpick why the EU — diverted by internal squabbles and colliding with a BRIC wall — failed to deliver.
www.contexte.com/eu/article/e...
🇧🇷 COP30: A post mortem of a disappointing summit. @genicotd.bsky.social & @vrg.bsky.social, from Belém, unpick why the EU — diverted by internal squabbles and colliding with a BRIC wall — failed to deliver.
www.contexte.com/eu/article/e...
COP30: A disappointing summit for the EU - Contexte
Brussels clearly didn’t get what it wanted from the COP30 summit in Brazil, which ended on 22 November with a bare-bones deal that fails to raise climate ambitions. In the inevitable postmortem, obser...
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November 24, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Two bangers published today by @energy.contexte.com:
🇧🇷 COP30: A post mortem of a disappointing summit. @genicotd.bsky.social & @vrg.bsky.social, from Belém, unpick why the EU — diverted by internal squabbles and colliding with a BRIC wall — failed to deliver.
www.contexte.com/eu/article/e...
🇧🇷 COP30: A post mortem of a disappointing summit. @genicotd.bsky.social & @vrg.bsky.social, from Belém, unpick why the EU — diverted by internal squabbles and colliding with a BRIC wall — failed to deliver.
www.contexte.com/eu/article/e...
After the environment council negotiated for roughly 20 hours on Tuesday/Wednesday, now it's the Parliament's turn to figure out its position on a planned 90% emissions cut for 2040.
I'm not saying MEPs are copying the member states' homework, but they've even reproduced their typos
I'm not saying MEPs are copying the member states' homework, but they've even reproduced their typos
November 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
After the environment council negotiated for roughly 20 hours on Tuesday/Wednesday, now it's the Parliament's turn to figure out its position on a planned 90% emissions cut for 2040.
I'm not saying MEPs are copying the member states' homework, but they've even reproduced their typos
I'm not saying MEPs are copying the member states' homework, but they've even reproduced their typos
There was once a chap named Ozymandias
Whose fate tragically came to a sandy pass
His vast legs of stone
Just stood all alone
Reaching up to his absent candy-ass
Whose fate tragically came to a sandy pass
His vast legs of stone
Just stood all alone
Reaching up to his absent candy-ass
October 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
There was once a chap named Ozymandias
Whose fate tragically came to a sandy pass
His vast legs of stone
Just stood all alone
Reaching up to his absent candy-ass
Whose fate tragically came to a sandy pass
His vast legs of stone
Just stood all alone
Reaching up to his absent candy-ass
Top marks to the European Commission here; this was indeed the first question on which I was seeking an answer in relation to the 2026 fishing opportunities for EU-managed stocks in the Atlantic and Skagerrak-Kattegat waters
October 29, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Top marks to the European Commission here; this was indeed the first question on which I was seeking an answer in relation to the 2026 fishing opportunities for EU-managed stocks in the Atlantic and Skagerrak-Kattegat waters
Went to see Bob Dylan live and thereby learned I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight is not, in fact, by UB40. I’m furious
October 29, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Went to see Bob Dylan live and thereby learned I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight is not, in fact, by UB40. I’m furious
The EU is close to agreeing an ambitious plan to ban all Russian gas imports within years.
Close - but not quite.
@sunderjourno.bsky.social unpicks what’s left to debate, in lightning talks over the next few weeks:
www.contexte.com/eu/article/e...
Close - but not quite.
@sunderjourno.bsky.social unpicks what’s left to debate, in lightning talks over the next few weeks:
www.contexte.com/eu/article/e...
Russian gas ban: What MEPs and member states agree on, and what they don’t - Contexte
A June Commission proposal to outlaw EU imports of Russian gas is designed to stop funding Moscow’s war machine and cut dependence on an unreliable supplier. It’s received broad support from MEPs and ...
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October 27, 2025 at 8:22 AM
The EU is close to agreeing an ambitious plan to ban all Russian gas imports within years.
Close - but not quite.
@sunderjourno.bsky.social unpicks what’s left to debate, in lightning talks over the next few weeks:
www.contexte.com/eu/article/e...
Close - but not quite.
@sunderjourno.bsky.social unpicks what’s left to debate, in lightning talks over the next few weeks:
www.contexte.com/eu/article/e...
Ah yes, that longstanding Grauniad contirbutor, Goerge Monbiot
October 23, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Ah yes, that longstanding Grauniad contirbutor, Goerge Monbiot
EU leaders gather in Brussels today to discuss the bloc's climate goals.
@genicotd.bsky.social lifts the lid on talks that will range from cars to nuclear.
No paywall, it's as free as ETS allowances in sectors subject to carbon leakage: www.contexte.com/eu/article/e...
@genicotd.bsky.social lifts the lid on talks that will range from cars to nuclear.
No paywall, it's as free as ETS allowances in sectors subject to carbon leakage: www.contexte.com/eu/article/e...
Brussels fights to save its 2040 climate targets, as capitals push back - Contexte
First seen as a mere staging post on the path to climate neutrality, the EU’s objective to legislate for 90% emissions cuts by 2040 has now become a major political headache. Pushback from member stat...
www.contexte.com
October 23, 2025 at 10:11 AM
EU leaders gather in Brussels today to discuss the bloc's climate goals.
@genicotd.bsky.social lifts the lid on talks that will range from cars to nuclear.
No paywall, it's as free as ETS allowances in sectors subject to carbon leakage: www.contexte.com/eu/article/e...
@genicotd.bsky.social lifts the lid on talks that will range from cars to nuclear.
No paywall, it's as free as ETS allowances in sectors subject to carbon leakage: www.contexte.com/eu/article/e...
I would give a substantial amount of money to have access to Mark Rutte’s internal monologue here
Trump on his new White House ballroom: "In order to do it properly we had to take down the existing structure."
October 23, 2025 at 8:05 AM
I would give a substantial amount of money to have access to Mark Rutte’s internal monologue here
In today's @energy.contexte.com briefing:
🥊 Brussels fights to save its 2040 climate targets
🏢 Hoekstra (sort of) unveils his last-minute reforms to ETS2
🇷🇺 The leaked timeline for talks on banning Russian gas
www.contexte.com/briefing/202...
🥊 Brussels fights to save its 2040 climate targets
🏢 Hoekstra (sort of) unveils his last-minute reforms to ETS2
🇷🇺 The leaked timeline for talks on banning Russian gas
www.contexte.com/briefing/202...
Contexte
Deep information.
www.contexte.com
October 22, 2025 at 6:15 AM
In today's @energy.contexte.com briefing:
🥊 Brussels fights to save its 2040 climate targets
🏢 Hoekstra (sort of) unveils his last-minute reforms to ETS2
🇷🇺 The leaked timeline for talks on banning Russian gas
www.contexte.com/briefing/202...
🥊 Brussels fights to save its 2040 climate targets
🏢 Hoekstra (sort of) unveils his last-minute reforms to ETS2
🇷🇺 The leaked timeline for talks on banning Russian gas
www.contexte.com/briefing/202...
TIL there is a piece of EU law called the “new legislative framework.” Like, that’s its name. NLF for short. It dates from 2008. www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...
New legislative framework
To improve the internal market for goods and strengthen the conditions for placing a wide range of products on the EU market, the new legislative framework was adopted in 2008. It is a package of meas...
single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu
October 21, 2025 at 11:37 AM
TIL there is a piece of EU law called the “new legislative framework.” Like, that’s its name. NLF for short. It dates from 2008. www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...
In today's @energy.contexte.com briefing:
🇨🇳 EU raises bar for India, China, Turkey for their Russian oil trade
☢️ Russian nuclear phaseout plans out in coming weeks, official says
🥳 The slimmed-down carbon border levy, CBAM, enters into force today
www.contexte.com/briefing/202...
🇨🇳 EU raises bar for India, China, Turkey for their Russian oil trade
☢️ Russian nuclear phaseout plans out in coming weeks, official says
🥳 The slimmed-down carbon border levy, CBAM, enters into force today
www.contexte.com/briefing/202...
Contexte
Deep information.
www.contexte.com
October 20, 2025 at 6:51 AM
In today's @energy.contexte.com briefing:
🇨🇳 EU raises bar for India, China, Turkey for their Russian oil trade
☢️ Russian nuclear phaseout plans out in coming weeks, official says
🥳 The slimmed-down carbon border levy, CBAM, enters into force today
www.contexte.com/briefing/202...
🇨🇳 EU raises bar for India, China, Turkey for their Russian oil trade
☢️ Russian nuclear phaseout plans out in coming weeks, official says
🥳 The slimmed-down carbon border levy, CBAM, enters into force today
www.contexte.com/briefing/202...
Somewhere, somehow, the ghost of Bertrand Russell raises an eyebrow
October 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Somewhere, somehow, the ghost of Bertrand Russell raises an eyebrow