This policy brief contends that a new approach to Long Term Contracts (LTCs) in European competition policy based on new facts, new realities and a revised reasoning must be urgently developed. To reach net zero as required by the EU Climate Law of 20211, the scale of investment in Europe (and across the globe) must be drastically ramped up in the last half of this decade. Interim targets are already being missed. The challenges to raise the predicted investments of over 650 billion euros -a large percentage of which must be mobilised from the private sector – requires an urgent rethink of the role of commercial long-term contracts in securing rapid and deep decarbonsiation in the energy transition.
Manufacturing firms in the EU face the double challenge of decarbonisation and (international) competitive pressure. Based on the key findings of the 2024 EIB investment survey and considering the economic [...]
Regulation 1370/2007, as amended by the Fourth Railway Package, set the date of 25 December 2023 for the opening to competition of services subject to public service obligations. As opposed [...]
In the North Seas region, a coalition of 9 countries expressed the ambition to quadruple their offshore wind capacity from 30 GW to 120 GW by 2030, and to then [...]
The EU's non-financial reporting (NFR) regulations have significant impacts on Global South stakeholders, firms that must report, actors lower in the value chain, and organisations seeking investment from NFR-compliant firms [...]
Innovation is closely linked to air transport, from the development of aircraft technologies to the creation of computer reservation systems. T he latter led to the development of global distribution [...]
Since October 2022, Russia’s escalated attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure have caused widespread damage, severely impacting energy security and economic stability. Despite these challenges, Ukraine has demonstrated remarkable resilience, restoring [...]
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