Applications for up to ~5 GW of new nuclear capacity in Sweden 🚀
Since December last year, Sweden has received four major applications related to new nuclear energy. This comes after several years of political work to reopen the door for new nuclear and prepare for up to 10 GW of new capacity by 2045. The applications are not all the same. Some are about site approval, while the Ringhals project is about state aid and financing support.
1️⃣ Videberg Kraft, owned by Vattenfall and Industrikraft Sverige, has applied for state aid for new reactors at Ringhals. That project is around 1.5 GW.
2️⃣ Kärnfull Next – a Studsvik company has applied for site approval in Valdemarsvik. The plan is 4-6 SMRs with a total capacity of around 1.2-1.6 GW.
3️⃣ Blykalla has applied for site approval in Norrsundet, Gävle. Their project is based on 6 SEALER-55 reactors with a total capacity of 330 MW.
4️⃣ Studsvik has applied for site approval in Studsvik, Nyköping. The application covers 2-4 light-water reactors with a total capacity of around 0.6-1.4 GW.
For a country that only a few years ago was still debating whether new nuclear would even happen, this is a pretty big shift. Sweden is increasingly looking like Europe’s front-runner for new clean firm power.
Lithuania stands with #Armenia in its efforts to defend its right to make sovereign choices and to have free and fair elections without foreign interference. Russia’s use of economic coercion to pressure Armenia in the context of Armenia‘s national elections is deplorable and must be addressed with resolve.
Lithuania welcomes the set up EU–Armenia Task Force, the new #EU financial support and trade measures package, and the broader partnership framework set out by the European Commission. Lithuania is committed to actively contributing to their implementation.
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"I am going to be wearing it as a badge of honour. It shows me that I touched a nerve - I am looking in the right places"
The prospect of Ukraine joining the EU could help ward off future Russian invasion, but EU membership wouldn't just be to Ukraine's benefit.
Our expert @Mij_Europe explains how Ukraine could help make Europe a military and agricultural superpower:
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The welfare state has many problems.
Bureaucracy. Abuse. Taxes. Dependency. Inefficiency.
But its greatest achievement is invisible:
the 93-year-old who does not have to clean trash to survive,
the cancer patient who does not lose his house,
the unemployed worker who does not fall straight into the abyss,
the old woman who can age with dignity.
Europe is not perfect.
But we should never forget what it protected us from.
L-am desemnat astăzi pe Eugen Tomac pentru a forma Guvernul din poziția de prim-ministru. Pentru că partidele nu se înțeleg între ele, singura soluție posibilă este un premier care să fie independent de formațiunile politice din Parlament.
Un premier care să reușească prin discuții individuale cu fiecare dintre aceste partide să ducă România în direcția pe care majoritatea cetățenilor a votat-o în mai 2025. Asta înseamnă direcție pro-occidentală, păstrarea stabilității financiare, finalizarea cât mai bună a PNRR și definirea bugetului pe 2027. Românii își doresc reforma instituțiilor statului, digitalizare și limitarea corupției.
Am ales ca propunere de prim-ministru o persoană independentă de partidele din Parlament, dar care are experiența politică de a discuta cu fiecare dintre acestea, pentru că e nevoie de consens de la multe partide pe multe probleme.
Este un act de responsabilitate din partea mea și aștept aceeași responsabilitate de la partide. Eugen Tomac are independența, experiența și valorile care îl recomandă pentru poziția de premier.
@UnderSecPD “Foreign bureaucrats directed at American speech.”
We were discussing a German court ruling involving a German citizen in Germany. The rest appears to have been added for dramatic effect.
Germany has around 1,300–1,500 hidden champions:
Germany alone accounts for roughly 46% of the world’s hidden champions — highly specialised, mostly mid-sized companies that rank among the top 3 globally in their niche markets or #1 in Europe.
These are not famous consumer brands. They are companies that dominate the components, machines, tools and industrial systems behind global supply chains.
This is why Germany became Europe’s strongest export economy: not only because of large corporations, but because thousands of specialised firms became global leaders in extremely specific industrial markets.
The work towards ending roaming charges for our candidate countries in the Western Balkans is clear evidence of how we are integrating them while they negotiate their full EU membership.
Citizens will see the difference this makes immediately when it comes into effect. And at the end of the day, all our work in the accession process is focused on making people’s lives better.
I’m delighted to see EU member states adopt our proposal to give the European Commission a mandate to discuss the practical steps for removing roaming charges with the telecommunications operators.
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#BuyIrish#BuyEuropean