EU Battery Alliance: Will Airbus-style Consortia Make Europe a Battery Tycoon?
European Union (EU) sales of electric vehicles (EVs) are set to boom from 126 thousand in 2017 to 200 thousand this year. While this is obviously good news, what worries Brussels is that more than half of the batteries that power them are being ma...
New Posting of Workers’ Rules: Much Ado About Nothing?
Last week (19 March 2018) the European Council (EC) and the European Parliament (EP), after over a decade of debates reached an agreement on pay an...
Steel and aluminum trade war: bleak perspectives for ironing out
In a controversial move, seen by many as a declaration of a trade war, on March 8th United States President Donald Trump signed a pair of proclamat...
Hydrogen Cars: a Fad or the Future?
Tesla s Elon Musk oftentimes convinces us that battery electric vehicles (BEVs) are the future, adding that hydrogen fuel cell cars are extremely s...
New Opportunities for Cooperation Between the Visegrad Four and Central Asia
Political and economic ties that existed before 1990 between Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland on the one hand and Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajiki...
Iraq’s Reconstruction Conference: It’s Touch-and-Go
For most people, Valentine s Day gift means a bouquet of roses, hear-shaped hand-written card or if their partner feels generous a voucher for a ro...
Every Breath You Take (May Slowly Kill You). EU’s Big Air Pollution Problem
Nine European Union Member States the Czech Republic, Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, and the United Kingdom could face...
