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100% renewables ‘feasible by 2050’ in EU

A report by the European Renewable Energy Council says the EU going completely renewable energy by 2050 is both economically doable and environmentally desirable. Energy will come from solar, wind, as well as geothermal and biomass. Biofuel and EVs will…

Gobbledygook and the European Union

Andy Carling muses on the language of politics, focusing on the impenetrable, deliberately vague verbiage favored by the EU. Here’s an interesting word; ‘toilettage’. It doesn’t mean what you think, in fact it’s far worse. Toilettage is the process of…

Interview with European Union VP Wallstrom

This is the first of a two-part podcast with Commissioner Wallström, who has revolutionised the European Union’s strategy for communicating with citizens and has been a bold experimenter in using internet based technologies for putting their message out and encouraging…