Renewables & efficiency: ‘It c • Table.Briefings

Shortly before the end of the French presidency, the energy ministers adopted their positions on the Renewables and Energy Efficiency Directives. They do not want to support key target increases from the REPowerEU plan.

The general orientations of the energy ministers on Monday were followed by words of praise from Berlin. The Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs wrote of a „great success“ and „ambitious goals“. But it was its State Secretary Sven Giegold (Greens) who struck a different tone in a video message outside the Council building. Speaking about the upcoming trilogue with the Parliament, the former MEP said, „Things can really only get greener now.“

Renewables & efficiency: ‘It can only get greener’

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