Europe's Crisis of Competence Revisited & Germany's Political Crisis with The Brawl Street Journal

Europe's regulatory dysfunction, fiscal fragility, and US gas dependency have deepened, not eased, since last year's discussion.

• Unenforceable EU law: The EU's methane regulation imposes fines up to 20% of global turnover for emissions reporting that's physically impossible on intermingled LNG imports; Brussels now tells states not to enforce it.
• Winter gas leverage: With European storage at 63%, a 2-3 month US LNG halt could empty storage by mid-January, giving Washington outsized leverage before elections.

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