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The EU Commission has proposed a new Fair Labour Mobility Package to give the European Labour Authority (ELA) stronger tools against cross-border labor market crime, which includes better information exchange and joint inspections between the authorities of member states. (translated)

🇪🇺 Working in another European country should not mean starting from zero. With the Fair Labour Mobility Package, we want to make sure that wherever you work in Europe, your social rights are protected, your qualifications are recognised and your business is supported. 1/6 https://t.co/uCDQs0denV #FairLabourMobility #SocialRights #EuropeanUnion #EU

🇦🇺🇪🇺 AUSTRALIA IN EU50! Australia belongs with the democratic West — and Europe should think much bigger. I call for a new EU50 vision that opens Europe to our closest democratic partners: deeper economic integration, free trade, mobility, security cooperation and, through treaty https://t.co/cANwy2gFpK #AustraliaInEU #DemocraticPartnership #EconomicIntegration #AU #EU

Today, we were at Finland’s border with Russia during our working visit to the country. Finland’s border is Europe’s border. Its defence is our defence. Europe must invest together in border security, defence and military mobility. https://t.co/CYvRAtosYy #Finland #BorderSecurity #Defence #FI #RU #EU

🇦🇹⚡ MY SECOND-MANDATE PLEDGE: ALL MOBILITY ELECTRIC BY 2035 Austria should not spend the next decade defending yesterday’s technology. My goal is clear: 2029: commercial mobility electric. Taxis. Public transport. Delivery fleets. Commercial vehicles. 2035: all mobility in https://t.co/AAOHB9i6A4 #ElectricMobility #GreenTransport #SustainableFuture #AT

YES TO ELECTRIFICATION — NO TO DEINDUSTRIALISATION! I support the electrification of transport and heating. Europe should invest massively in electric mobility, modern railways, heat pumps, stronger electricity grids, nuclear power, renewables, storage and clean industrial https://t.co/fFpNlqOG6w #Electrification #SustainableEnergy #CleanTransport #EU

The new social rental program proposed by Mimit in collaboration with Aci will allow families with an ISEE below 30,000 euros to rent a low-emission car for 100 euros a month, promoting the replacement of polluting vehicles and supporting the mobility of those with lower incomes. (translated)

Cold Beer and Hot Showers - Not Kilowatt-Hours All That Consumers Want The energy sector spends an extraordinary amount of time talking about generation, transmission, storage, flexibility, markets, tariffs, balancing, ancillary services, carbon emissions, batteries, hydrogen, demand response, electrification pathways, system costs, capacity mechanisms, investment signals, market design and regulation. All of these things matter. Some of them matter enormously. But there is a simple question that often disappears somewhere between the conference room, the policy paper and the technical model: What does the customer actually want? The answer is surprisingly simple. Most people do not wake up in the morning thinking about kilowatt-hours. They do not dream about capacity markets. They do not worry about frequency stability. They do not spend their evenings comparing balancing mechanisms. They want cold beer and hot showers. They want a warm home in winter and a cool home in summer. They want the lights to turn on when they press the switch. They want their phone charged, their food refrigerated and their car ready when they need it. In other words, they do not want energy. They want what energy allows them to do. That distinction may sound trivial, but it changes almost everything. For more than a century, the energy industry has been organized around the production, transportation and sale of energy itself. Electricity became measured in kilowatt-hours. Gas became measured in cubic meters. Fuel became measured in litres or tonnes. Markets, regulations and business models were built around those units. The customer, however, never experienced life in kilowatt-hours. The customer experienced comfort. Convenience. Mobility. Reliability. Security. The units used by the industry and the outcomes desired by the customer were never the same thing. For a long time, this mismatch was not particularly important. Energy was relatively scarce, flexibility was limited, and the dominant challenge was supplying enough fuel to satisfy demand. The system could afford to focus on production because production was the central problem. Today the situation is changing. Electrification is transforming energy systems around the world. Renewable generation is increasing rapidly. Batteries are appearing in homes, businesses and vehicles. Buildings are becoming smarter. Heat pumps are replacing boilers. Electric vehicles are becoming mobile storage assets. Customers are increasingly able not only to consume energy but also to store it, shift it, manage it and sometimes even sell it. As this happens, the most valuable question is no longer simply how much energy is produced. The more important question becomes: How well is energy aligned with what people actually need? A family does not care whether its water heater operates at noon or at two in the afternoon if hot water is available when someone steps into the shower. A homeowner does not care whether a battery charges at 1 p.m. or 3 p.m. if electricity costs less and reliability improves. An electric vehicle owner does not care when charging occurs as long as the vehicle is ready when needed. The objective is not the kilowatt-hour. The objective is the service. This is why many of the most important developments in modern energy systems are not really about producing more energy. They are about matching energy to the service required, at the right time, in the right place and in the right form. The technical term for this is often hidden behind complicated language. Experts discuss flexibility, demand management, dynamic pricing, distributed energy resources and system optimization. Consumers experience something much simpler. They experience agency. They experience the ability to save money without sacrificing comfort. They experience the ability to make choices. They experience the ability to benefit from technologies that work for them rather than asking them to work for the technology. This is where many debates become confused. Consumers do not want to be coordinated. They want agency. Good energy systems do not force people to behave differently. They make beneficial behaviour easier, more natural and more rewarding. The best systems do not rely on control. They rely on alignment. When the customer’s interest aligns with the system’s interest, remarkable things become possible. Demand shifts naturally. Storage becomes useful. Flexibility appears. Costs decline. Reliability improves. The customer does not need to understand the complexity underneath. Just as nobody needs to understand how the internet routes packets around the globe in order to send a message, nobody should need to understand wholesale electricity markets in order to enjoy affordable energy services. Success is not measured by how much complexity consumers are asked to absorb. Success is measured by how much complexity the system absorbs on their behalf. The future energy system will undoubtedly involve more digital technology, more electrification, more storage, more automation and more coordination. But none of those are the destination. They are merely tools. The destination remains exactly what it has always been. Cold beer. Hot showers. Comfortable homes. Reliable mobility. Affordable bills. Everything else is infrastructure. And perhaps that is the simplest way to understand the energy transition. People do not want kilowatt-hours. They want the life that kilowatt-hours make possible.

BMW started series production of the electric sedan i3 in Munich, thereby ending the production of vehicles with internal combustion engines and starting a new era of electric mobility at this historical plant, which focused on the production of battery electric vehicles. (translated)

MONTENEGRO INTO SCHENGEN IN 2027 Montenegro is ready to become part of Europe’s border-free area. Schengen membership in 2027 would strengthen tourism, investment, regional mobility, security cooperation, and Montenegro’s irreversible European integration. No new borders in #Montenegro #Schengen2027 #EuropeanIntegration #ME

If a parking system traps drivers behind a barrier during a technical failure, there must be clear emergency procedures. Technology should never leave people stranded. #TicketlessParking #DataPrivacy #GDPR #Mobility #TicketlessParking #Mobility #EmergencyProcedures #Therearenospecificcountriesmentionedinthetweet.

In an interview, Adam Tooze analyzes how China's industrial policy and technological progress, especially in the areas of e-mobility and renewable resources, pose competition for Germany, which is still adhering to an outdated model of the automotive industry, and warns Europe of the necessity to adopt a more strategic and interventionist approach to industrial policy in order to face the rising power of China. (translated)

🚨🇫🇷 - C’est tout chaud, ça vient de sortir. Selon l’étude Global Wealth Mobility Leaders 2026, publiée par Henley Global, 800 millionnaires ont quitté la France en 2025 ✈️ On parle ici du solde net : les millionnaires arrivés en France moins les millionnaires partis de France. Ils ont emporté avec eux plus de 4 milliards d’€ d’actifs, Soit plus de 4 milliards d’€ d’actifs en moins à taxer pour l’État français. Ils se sont principalement installés en Suisse, en Italie, à Singapour, au Portugal et aux Émirats arabes unis. Mais rappelez-vous, selon certains : “Toutes les études démontrent que les riches ne quittent jamais le pays lorsqu’on augmente leur fiscalité.” Et, au vu de l’instabilité politique à venir ainsi que de la trajectoire économique et budgétaire du pays, Les choses devraient encore plus s’accélérer cette année et l’année prochaine. #Richesse #Fiscalité #Mobilité

Acting in summer to prepare for winter. This is how we help people anticipate their needs. In 🇱🇧, thousands of blankets & pillows from 🇸🇪 were delivered through the 🇪🇺 Civil Protection Mechanism. Wheelchairs will also support people with mobility needs. https://t.co/RYQPGDFXHZ #WinterPreparation #HumanitarianAid #CivilProtection #LB #SE #EU

Šéf odborů ve Škoda Auto, Jaroslav Povšík, varoval, že se očekává útlum výroby malých aut jako je Fabia a Scala, přičemž produkce se bude snižovat od září a přesune se do zahraničí, což ohrozí zaměstnanost v tuzemských závodech a vyžádá si přizpůsobení se novým výrobním trendům, včetně e-mobility. #ŠkodaAuto #eMobilita #Volkswagen