Euranet Plus Panorama

In light of the risk of Russia ceasing gas deliveries to the EU – particularly given Gazprom’s current, supposedly temporary, shutdown of the Nord Stream 1 pipeline – energy security remains high on the agenda for several of our member stations. Listen to the news of the week in Europe as seen by our European radio network.

The Czech presidency got off the ground this week, with the inaugural speech to plenary in Strasbourg. As ever, there are a lot of meaty issues on the to-do list.
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Almost a year after the European Commission presented its 'Fit for 55' climate package, the other institutions are just on the point of getting down to negotiations. Identifying a common position among member states proved painful in places...

EU membership gets closer for some, but the outlook is hazier for others: the much-discussed question of whether to grant Ukraine and Moldova EU candidate status is at the top of many radio stations' agendas this week… and is there light at the end of the tunnel for the Western Balkans?
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This week, we ask journalists from around the Euranet Plus network how they think the seismic events Europe has had to contend with over the past two years have changed the EU or its citizens' perceptions of it.
If one thing is for certain, it is that the EU's role in these crises has not left its citizens indifferent.
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There has been plenty of climate-related drama in Strasbourg this week, with a massive disagreement stalling the expansion of the emissions trading scheme, but the total ban on polluting vehicles by 2035 coming to pass. Listen to our radio stations' reports in this new Panorama magazine.

Following further wrangling and compromise at a special meeting of the European Council earlier this week, EU leaders finally gave a thumbs-up to the bloc’s sixth package of sanctions against Moscow.
All this in the weekly Panorama of our European radio network!
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In our main story this week, Europe attempts to keep in step as warfare moves increasingly online. We also look at Bulgaria’s increasingly uncomfortable position as the main obstacle to North Macedonian accession talks, EU treaty reform, and how the already-fragile Brexit agreement is threatening to come apart at the seams.

At this week’s Euranet Plus summit, we welcome Commission executive vice-president Margrethe Vestager, whose mission it is to make Europe ‘fit for the digital age’. Our team of journalists across the EU grill her about Europe’s digital and technological prospects.

Welcome to Euranet Plus Panorama! Monday 9 May was Europe Day in many EU member states and Victory Day in others. It offered a moment of reflection for radio stations across the Euranet Plus network – and marked the beginning of the next phase in the Conference on the Future of Europe process.