The EU Commission is considering relaxing tendering rules for wind farms to protect the European wind industry from Chinese competition. The aim is to give more expensive European manufacturers an advantage over turbine producers that produce less sustainably or even benefit from unfair subsidies. Therefore, EU countries will be encouraged to consider non-financial criteria such […]
In the reorganization of the EU budget, the German government is advocating a higher share of direct grants for Ukraine. For the upcoming revision of the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) until 2027, the Commission has asked the member states for new aid for Ukraine amounting to €50 billion over the next four years. Part of […]
In the trade dispute with the United States over the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), EU countries insist on a comprehensive concession from the United States. “The Council invites the Commission to work intensively to defuse the problematic and discriminatory elements of the IRA, including ensuring that the European Union is granted equivalent free trade partner […]
In response to billions in US subsidies for the production of green technologies, the EU Commission is rediscovering the value of demand-side policies. Despite adverse circumstances, Europe still offers cleantech investors attractive business opportunities, the Commission writes in its report on the impact of the IRA on the European economy, presented yesterday. What sounds like […]
The FDP parliamentary group in the Bundestag opposes the position of the EU states on the European electricity market reform. FDP parliamentary group Vice President Lukas Köhler told Table.Media the coalition rejected bilateral contracts for differences during the coalition talks and the latest amendments to the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG). “We as liberals see […]
At the beginning of the trilogue on electricity market design, Parliament and Council initially presented their respective positions on Thursday. “The Council emphasized that its general orientation is sacrosanct, but that’s not the way forward, of course,” said Green negotiator Michael Bloss. In addition to the well-known topics of coal power plants and difference contracts, […]
Initially, European companies are encouraged to provide further evidence of unfair practices, as stated in the draft of the European Wind Energy Action Plan by the Brussels authority. It mentions that if justified, the Commission will employ its trade defense instruments.The new wind package aims to secure the achievement of climate goals but is primarily […]
For some, Tuesday’s agreement by EU energy ministers on electricity market reform seemed like a liberating blow. But what does the complicated set of rules mean for the German industrial electricity price and consumers’ bills? Does the EU reform facilitate an industrial electricity price in Germany?Most likely, no. By 2030, according to a working paper […]
After the Council is before the trilogue – this EU maxim has rarely been as true as after yesterday’s meeting of energy ministers in Luxembourg on the electricity market reform. There was essentially a stalemate between Berlin and Paris in the dispute over subsidies for French nuclear power plants. The decisive points of contention will […]
Whether the dispute over electricity market reform is resolved today by the energy ministers or not, it already shows one thing: how unsuitable the EU still is for enlargement. How often have smaller member states criticized the fact that nothing in the Union can be decided against Berlin and Paris? For months now, these two […]