Go to the Content Thursday, 9 February 2012
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| 1. Soil directive may be dug up | January 27, 2012 |
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Political changes may reduce German opposition; Commission to publish report on state of EU soil. A long-dead proposal for an EU directive on soil may resurface in the coming... |
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| 2. On a sustainable path | January 19, 2012 |
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Divisions over energy efficiency in the Parliament are overstated. You wrote recently that “MEPs are divided over how far compulsion should play a role in achieving EU... |
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| 3. MEPs split on energy targets | January 6, 2012 |
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Divisions among MEPs reflect divisions among member states on the Commission's proposal for an energy efficiency directive MEPs are divided over how far compulsion should... |
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| 4. Energy ministers shun efficiency targets | November 24, 2011 |
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Call for more flexibility, concern at possible costs. Energy ministers meeting in Brussels today expressed dissatisfaction with efficiency targets for energy suppliers and... |
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| 5. Ministers to adopt proposal on energy co-ordination | November 17, 2011 |
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Enhanced co-ordination aims to secure supplies, but member states remain reluctant to share details of deals. Energy ministers meeting in Brussels on 24 November will adopt... |
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| 6. A greener budget? | October 27, 2011 |
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Commission plans to allocate much more of the EU budget to climate issues are proving controversial. If the EU's much-trumpeted aspiration is to create a ‘low-carbon... | |
| 7. Can the EU import energy and promote democracy? | September 15, 2011 |
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New approach to energy deals could cause some problems. Much of the media coverage of the European Commission's proposals for a more coherent European approach towards... |
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| 8. Commission wants more EU control in energy deals | September 8, 2011 |
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Commission to review deals with third countries, while Poland pushes for more energy transparency. The European Commission, as part of its efforts to create a common... |
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| 9. Budget cuts hold back spending on efficiency | June 30, 2011 |
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The European Commission is having a tough time persuading member states to invest in energy efficiency. Billions of euros will be needed to improve energy efficiency across... |
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| 10. Renovating for lower energy use | June 30, 2011 |
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The Commission wants to force member states to renovate buildings. Discussion of the EU's goal to cut greenhouse-gas emissions tends to focus on the switch from dirty fossil... | |
| 11. Switched on to potential savings? | June 30, 2011 |
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The EU faces an uphill battle to meet its energy-efficiency ambitions. For something supposedly in almost everyone's self-interest, energy efficiency has failed to inspire... |
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| 12. A different approach to delivering power | June 30, 2011 |
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The European Commission wants energy savings to form a major part of EU energy policy. The concept is neat: in a world where energy is expensive and customers want to pay... |
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| 13. Safety-first approach to European energy policy | June 23, 2011 |
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Major obstacles will have to be overcome if Poland is to realise its ambition of better co-ordination of EU energy relations. By EU standards, Poland is not particularly... |
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| 14. Inefficient and unambitious | May 19, 2011 |
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Just how committed is the EU to energy efficiency? You wrote last week that, as your headline put it, “power firms could face energy-efficiency fines” under proposals... |
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| 15. Power firms could face energy-efficiency fines | May 12, 2011 |
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Commission seeks savings targets amid concern that proposals do not go far enough. Power companies could be fined for failing to help customers cut back energy use,... |
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| 16. Users to pay more for greener transport | March 17, 2011 |
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Commission to set out path to cleaner transport, but Green groups say plans delay action. People should pay more to travel in future, according to a European Commission... |
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| 17. EU must put more faith in efficiency | March 9, 2011 |
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Everyone wants energy efficiency, but how to get it is another matter. Sometimes the difficulty for the European Union's policymakers is to identify what their objective... | |
| 18. Commission's energy-efficiency plan attacked for ‘softening' EU policies | March 3, 2011 |
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Industry and green groups fear that the Commission risks weakening Europe's flagship plan on energy savings. Industry groups and green campaigners have warned the European... |
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