This week in EU policy: Major renewables conference, a focus on Oceans and trouble from Berlin

Frey Lindsay, Impact Loop. Collage: impact Loop.
10 juni 2025
09:15
Frey Lindsay, Impact Loop. Collage: impact Loop.
The Commission launches its plans for the Blue Economy ahead of major UN Oceans conference, a 3-day policy extravaganza in Brussels, and one of Europe's biggest automotive lobbies throws another hurdle in the way of the EU's climate agenda.

Welcome to this week's EU impact policy round-up, by Frey Lindsay.

"When we protect marine areas, life returns," so said UN Secretary-General António Guterres at the opening of the UN Ocean Conference in the South of France on Monday.

Oceans are really in the spotlight this week, even as the Impact community is still digesting the announcement last month of the EU's new Startup and Scaleup Strategy.

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