Europe’s Green Industrial Policy: ‘Superior’ through carbon prices? Welcome to EURACTIV’s weekly Economy Brief. You can subscribe to the newsletter here. Economists see the European approach to building climate-friendly industries as “superior” to the US subsidy spree. But politicians have other priorities – and are starting to grumble.... Germany’s reunification, 33 years on: East-West divide persists 33 years after German reunification, wealth disparities still form the “most significant differences” between the former West and the East, German government Commissioner Carsten Schneider said, but differences within the government make it impossible to counteract. US jail practices are racist and an ‘affront to human dignity,’ UN experts say UN human rights experts have called for major reforms of the US criminal justice system to combat systemic racism, citing testimonies that jailed Black women had been shackled during childbirth while male inmates were forced to work in "plantation-style" conditions. German top adviser cautious about possible WTO case against US In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about Bulgaria’s decision to continue using Russian oil for as long as possible, Austria pitching policy areas for ‘gradual’ Western Balkans integration, and so much more. EU prepping for post-quantum encryption The first episode of the two-part podcast series focusses on the EU’s preparedness for post-quantum encryption. With Heike Hagemeier, an expert at the German Federal Office for Information Security, BSI, and Andrea Garcia Rodriguez, Lead Digital Policy Analyst for the...
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