On June 13th at 10:30 p.m. on ORF 2
Vienna (OTS) – Dieter Bornemann presents the ORF business magazine “Eco” on Thursday, June 13, 2024, at 10:30 p.m. on ORF 2 with the following contributions:
Prestige project or regulatory excess: What renaturation is really about
There is talk of an extremely expensive prestige project and of the over-regulation madness in Brussels. The planned EU regulation “On the Restoration of Nature” pursues a goal that has always been important to Austria – to improve the condition of forests, moors and rivers. The EU Parliament has already approved the measure, but there is not yet a sufficient majority among the EU states for it. Austria could be the deciding factor as to whether the project is implemented across the EU. But there are concerns that the regulation could endanger food safety in Austria or create high costs and bureaucracy for local farmers. And there is also political disagreement from the state governors, the green environment ministry and the ÖVP. Report: Johannes Ruprecht, Michael Mayrhofer
Photovoltaics from China: Is there a safety risk?
In the past two years, Europe has experienced a true photovoltaic boom. A majority of the solar panels installed come from China. And Chinese providers are also gaining massive market share when it comes to inverters, the heart of the system for feeding solar power into the grid. The few remaining European manufacturers of solar technology cannot compete with prices. Warning calls are being raised more and more often: this dependence on China could become a security risk. Fears range from the collection of private household data to deliberate large-scale power outages in Europe. Are we buying into a security risk with cheap solar technology from China? Report: Bettina Fink, Martin Steiner
Ball business: Who makes money from the European Championship ball and where it comes from
The European Football Championship kicks off in Germany on June 14th. Adidas has been supplying the official match ball since 1970. But how has the ball changed over the years? It now has a chip that sends data to the referee team and is glued instead of sewn as before. It is manufactured in Pakistan, among other places, like around 80 percent of all training footballs – in a single city in Pakistan. What are the working conditions on site like? And who earns money from the European Championship ball? Report: Michael Mayrhofer, Rosa Lyon