Will hydrogen be competitive in Europe without tax favours?

Electricity liberalisation in Europe - how competitive will it be

All of the countries of Western Europe have taken steps to liberalise their electricity industries. Large consumers in every country can choose their electricity supplier, and in some countries, this choice has been extended to every consumer. The European Union has decided that from 2007 at the latest, all customers will be able to choose their electricity supplier. A number of large European ...

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Will a Fat Tax Work? Will a Fat Tax Work?

BACKGROUND Of the many proposals to counter the obesity epidemic, the most contentious is the use of the “fat tax”. Previous investigations of the efficacy of price-based initiatives in altering consumption behavior have yielded contradictory findings. METHODS We use six years of milk sales data from 1,500 stores to investigate whether price incentives induce substitution to healthier alternati...

Global warming favours light-coloured insects in Europe

Associations between biological traits of animals and climate are well documented by physiological and local-scale studies. However, whether an ecophysiological phenomenon can affect large-scale biogeographical patterns of insects is largely unknown. Insects absorb energy from the sun to become mobile, and their colouration varies depending on the prevailing climate where they live. Here we sho...

The future of medicine will be dark without international collaboration

Seizure is not a political journal. However, many interactions among professionals, including medical publications, have ripple effects on society, even if many of these will only be small or confined to a particular audience or community. Seizure is called the “European Journal of Epilepsy”. As such its readers, editorial team, publishers and its owners, Epilepsy Action, have a stake in Europe...