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Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social · 4d

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

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Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social · 7d

Add bacon and pastries and … you can see how they came up with the idea

Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social · 7d

Guess it would be less diplomatic to offer Wegovy

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Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social · 12d

presumably it was the "worse" bit that triggered here

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Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social · 12d

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

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Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social · 13d

It’s the incremental difference in spelling that makes it for me

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Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social · 13d

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

Commission press release: Questions and Answers on the 2026 fishing opportunities for EU-managed stocks in the Atlantic and Skagerrak-Kattegat waters
Why is the Commission proposing fishing opportunities for EU-managed fish stocks in the Atlantic and Skagerrak-Kattegat waters?

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Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social · 14d

Went to see Bob Dylan live and thereby learned I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight is not, in fact, by UB40. I’m furious

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Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social · 16d

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...

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 ...

www.contexte.com

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Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social · 19d

Ah yes, that longstanding Grauniad contirbutor, Goerge Monbiot

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Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social · 19d

There seemed to be a similar dilemma a few days ago about "using money assigned for one purpose for another, without clear legal authority"

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Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social · 19d

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...

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

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Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social · 20d

I would give a substantial amount of money to have access to Mark Rutte’s internal monologue here

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20d

Trump on his new White House ballroom: "In order to do it properly we had to take down the existing structure."

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Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social · 21d

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...

Contexte

Deep information.

www.contexte.com

Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social · 21d

Please sign my petition Québecois 👏 are 👏 Latin 👏 Americans

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Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social · 21d

Weirdly, amongst their priorities for the NLF review, MEPs forgot to propose it be renamed the OLF

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Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social · 21d

Anyway, what’s the most gibberish thing YOU’VE read today?

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Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social · 21d

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

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Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social · 23d

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...

Contexte

Deep information.

www.contexte.com

Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social · 25d

On it!

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Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social · 26d

this guy looks *exactly* how I expect and hope a French rural affairs minister will look. merci M Lecornu, 24/20 pas de remarques

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Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social · 26d

Somewhere, somehow, the ghost of Bertrand Russell raises an eyebrow

Telegraph headline: Trump could offer refugee status to Europeans who oppose migration

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Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social · 27d

In today’s Contexte energy briefing:
🚌 What’s in the energy omnibus
🎈 How MEPs plan to vote hydrogen rules - and the secret assurances the commission gave them
⚡️ 200 cross-border energy projects Brussels is lining up for faster funding
🏭 Commission concedes on ETS

www.contexte.com/briefing/202...

Contexte

Deep information.

www.contexte.com

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Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social · Oct 13

In today's @energy.contexte.com briefing:
🇬🇧 The leaked mandate for linking up UK, EU carbon markets
🚗 MEPs prepare to vote on 2040 emissions targets
🔥 Inside the EU's €1bn auction on industrial heat www.contexte.com/briefing/202...

Contexte

Deep information.

www.contexte.com

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Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social · Oct 13

"increase / decrease the VAT rate" also falls into this category in my experience

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