We call it salami tactics: the EU Council is cutting away the Energy Efficiency Directive slice by slice. One tactic is to count savings made prior to the directive’s implementation (see our story on ‘early action’). Another is to credit savings before they have actually been achieved. How this works: several member states are trying… » read more
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Member States are rightly shunned by their peers for getting creative with budget deficit figures. So why is there so much support from national governments to apply the same methods to the EU’s draft Energy Efficiency Directive? Leaked documents from European Council meetings show that at least 12 out of 27 Member States are seeking… » read more
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Energy Efficiency Directive, Uncategorized , climate, Council, energy, Energy Efficiency Directive, environment, European Commission |
From: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (ENER) Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 5:47 PM To: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX(ENER) Subject: Last night – efficiency directive and the Commissioner Dear XXXXXXXX, Many thanks for a lovely dinner last night and please tell XXXXXXXX it was delicious as ever. Our place next time! I hope you didn’t take my remarks about our Commissioner the… » read more
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We’re not sure what words first spring to mind when you hear “energy efficiency”, but we bet “exciting” isn’t one of them. Yet that’s exactly what it is – or rather what the benefits of meeting Europe’s 2020 energy efficiency target woul
