October 23, 2014
EU leaders are meeting today in Brussels to discuss the EU’s 2030 energy, environment and climate change framework which will likely involve some new targets for emissions reduction. You can find our full thoughts on the original Commission proposal …
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2020, 2030, carbon emissions, Climate Change, energy, energy prices, Environment, eu energy, renewables |
February 13, 2014
With little fanfare, the Government has today published the second round of Balance of EU Competences reports – now making it 14 reports published in total. We won’t accuse the Government of seeking to bury the latest batch of reports in the week of …
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#EUReform, balance of competences, britain in europe, Cameron, Climate Change, Environment, EU culture, EU trade |
Will EU policies switch off the lights?When 100 years ago a British Foreign Secretary observed that:”The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time” he was referring to a particularly bad phase in Europe…
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March 9, 2012
This question can of course be filed under John Rentoul’s ‘Questions to which the answer is No’ category, but there is a significant chance that Poland will be the only EU member state to veto a new EU deal on climate change later today, meaning …
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Cameron, carbon emissions, Climate Change, danish EU presidency, isolation, Poland, veto |
March 5, 2010
The EU’s new Taxation Commissioner Algirdas Semeta has announced that he is planning to revive previously shelved plans for an EU-wide carbon tax, aiming to set a minimum levy of €10/tonne of CO2 emitted (although the exact level is a bit unclear) fr…
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