
Your search for "Energy" produced 533 items.
| 1. EU shale-gas debate hots up | February 2, 2012 |
Opposition grows against shale-gas extraction, but energy companies say that process is safe. Depending on whom you talk to, last Friday's report by the European Commission... |
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| 2. At the coalface | January 12, 2012 |
Anna Zvolikevich on the challenges of representing Ukrainian heavy industry in Brussels. This may not be the easiest time to be promoting Ukrainian interests in the EU –... |
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| 3. Greening the European Investment Bank | January 9, 2012 |
The EIB now promotes clean energy more – but fossil fuels still dominate its energy portfolio. Over the past four years, the European Investment Bank – the European... |
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| 4. MEPs split on energy targets | January 6, 2012 |
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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| 5. Household fuel costs ‘could rise by 15%' | December 12, 2011 |
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Lower fuel costs will mean a spending cut in the long run European households will have to spend more on energy and energy-related products in order to meet an EU goal of... | |
| 6. Long-term spending battles loom | December 8, 2011 |
Member states agree on seven-year spending cycle but agriculture and energy will be sticking-points. Mikolaj Dowgielewicz, Poland's EU affairs minister, mischievously... |
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| 7. EU to target Iran's energy and financial interests | December 1, 2011 |
Ministers to discuss sweeping sanctions, while UK pulls out diplomatic staff after embassy attack and expels Iranian diplomats. Foreign ministers will discuss sweeping... |
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| 8. Energy ministers shun efficiency targets | November 24, 2011 |
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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| 9. Transparency rules cause industry anger | October 27, 2011 |
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Commission wants firms in extractive industries to disclose payments to foreign governments. The European Commission is seeking the mandatory disclosure by European energy,... | |
| 10. Energy roadmap foresees massive shift to renewables | October 27, 2011 |
Draft looks at ways to achieve emissions targets; increased use of electric vehicles is envisaged. Renewable energy sources would have to provide at least 55% of all energy... |
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| 11. Attempts to cut back on carbon | October 27, 2011 |
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Having a successful emissions trading scheme is a difficult balancing act. The emissions trading scheme (ETS) is at the heart of the EU's efforts to cut greenhouse-gas... | |
| 12. Barroso wants project bonds to boost growth | October 19, 2011 |
Pilot scheme aims to attract capital-market investments and will be launched in co-operation with the EIB. José Manuel Barroso, the European Commission president, has... |
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| 13. What happens when they won't play ball? | October 13, 2011 |
Answering a question not addressed in a European Commission paper on energy security. The European Commission's long-awaited communication on EU energy security policy,... |
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| 14. An attempt to restore faith in Europe | September 29, 2011 |
Barroso tells the EU to look forward and claims 2012 work programme will spur economic growth. If demonstrating faith in the future is part of the EU's game in restoring... |
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| 15. Commission to fudge CO2 effects of biofuel | September 22, 2011 |
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Oettinger and Hedegaard reject advice from Commission's scientific experts. The European Commission has rejected the advice of its scientific experts and backed away from... | |
| 16. Can the EU import energy and promote democracy? | September 15, 2011 |
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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| 17. Looking for energy in the backyard | September 15, 2011 |
Poland is turning its attention from external energy security to changing its energy mix. For a pipeline that was so controversial when it was on the drawing board, the... |
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| 18. Commission wants external energy deals to be ‘shared' | July 28, 2011 |
Oettinger seeks details of deals with non-EU countries. Günther Oettinger, the European commissioner for energy, is to propose that member states share... |
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| 19. Commission backs ‘green' biofuel schemes | July 20, 2011 |
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Seven schemes to verify credentials of biofuel. The European Commission has announced that seven schemes will be authorised to verify that biofuel produces greenhouse-gas... | |
| 20. Faithful followers | July 14, 2011 |
VoteWatch identifies these five MEPs as the “most powerful”. The VoteWatch criterion is being on the winning side most often in roll-call votes. The scores were... |
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