Jack Schickler
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Jack Schickler
@jackschickler.bsky.social
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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
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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
Add bacon and pastries and … you can see how they came up with the idea
Guess it would be less diplomatic to offer Wegovy
presumably it was the "worse" bit that triggered here
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
It’s the incremental difference in spelling that makes it for me
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
Ah yes, that longstanding Grauniad contirbutor, Goerge Monbiot
There seemed to be a similar dilemma a few days ago about "using money assigned for one purpose for another, without clear legal authority"
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."
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

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Please sign my petition Québecois 👏 are 👏 Latin 👏 Americans
Weirdly, amongst their priorities for the NLF review, MEPs forgot to propose it be renamed the OLF
Anyway, what’s the most gibberish thing YOU’VE read today?
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
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this guy looks *exactly* how I expect and hope a French rural affairs minister will look. merci M Lecornu, 24/20 pas de remarques
Somewhere, somehow, the ghost of Bertrand Russell raises an eyebrow
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

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