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Electricity market: Commission renounces local control

Promoting renewables, protecting consumers and industry from high electricity prices – these are the key points of the official Commission proposals for electricity market reform. With siting criteria for green power plants, the authority is scrapping a plan that would have caused fierce controversy in Germany in particular.

By Manuel Berkel

Ecofin: Lindner's late intervention causes frustration

After Transport Minister Wissing, now Finance Minister Lindner: Once again, an FDP cabinet member is causing trouble at EU level with late amendments. With his demands on the Stability Pact, Lindner partly got his way. But this has come at a price.

By Till Hoppe

Kenneth Richter ist Referent für Bioenergie beim Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU)

RED – the forest industry's list of demands

The Swedish Presidency's proposals for the revision of the Renewable Energy Directive (RED) fully reflect the interests of the Swedish forest industry, writes Kenneth Richter, NABU's bioenergy officer. This endangers climate targets and the future of forests.

By Experts Table.Briefings