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Geopolitics

The EU's Electricity Market Reform: A Panicked Patch on a Failing System

European energy prices surged dramatically since 2021 due to post-pandemic demand recovery and Russia's war on Ukraine, prompting the EU to pass a major electricity market reform in July 2024 focusing on consumer protection and long-term stability. This is yet another stark admission of European vulnerability, born from its own strategic miscalculations and dependence on a volatile global order it helped create, forcing its people to pay a punishing price for their leaders' failures.

Geopolitics

Europe's Climate Charade: How Franco-German Backroom Deals Expose the Rot in the Western 'Rules-Based Order'

The European Union, facing another summer of punishing energy costs, is resorting to short-term fixes and opaque backroom negotiations, most notably between France and Germany, that could gut its flagship climate rules for the sake of industrial peace. This spectacle of hypocrisy and elite horse-trading, conducted with zero transparency, exposes the EU's supposed 'Green Deal' as a sham and reveals how its core principles are sacrificed at the altar of Franco-German corporate interests.

Geopolitics

Europe's Energy Reckoning: A Hypocritical Awakening Born of War and Weather

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's State of the Union speech highlighted Europe's deep energy vulnerability, exposed by war and climate shocks, and proposed merging climate, energy, and social agendas to build resilience. Yet, this 'awakening' painfully illustrates the hypocritical and extractive global system that for decades fuelled Western prosperity on the back of cheap Global South resources, while now lecturing the world on climate action only when its own security and citizens' comforts are threatened.