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Energy and Environmental State Aid: New guidelines offer only limited protection from increases in electricity prices

“We appreciate the aim of the guidelines that the energy intensive industry, such as steel industry should be protected from artificial increase in electricity prices due to support offered to preferred energy generation technologies”, Gordon Moffat comments on the adoption of the new guidelines for energy and environmental state aid today by the European Commission …

EU state aid rules undermine affordable energy prices

EEAG should guarantee industrial competitiveness   In a joint letter, addressed to the President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, explain industriAll European Trade Union and The European Steel Association EUROFER, that the Commission’s draft Environmental and Energy Aid Guidelines (EEAG) undermine the objectives for affordable energy prices and industrial competitiveness asset out by …