Termination of subsidies for renewables looming

[FBaggins]

Europolitics – 31.01.2014
Marie-Martine Buckens

There have been a number of statements the last few days – some frank, some not spelling things out quite so clearly – pushing for an end to EU member state schemes to support green electricity.

On 28 January, the French General Commission for Strategy and Economic Foresight (Commissariat général à la stratégie et à la prospective, CGSP) published a report advocating a review of renewable energy support measures. The same day, Yves Bot, advocate-general at the EU Court of Justice, stated that reserving green certificates to national producers of renewable electricity runs counter to the principle of free movement of goods laid down in Article 34 of the EU Treaty (see Europolitics 4799). If the court follows the advocate-general’s opinion – as it does in the great majority of cases – the implications are such that the judgement would signal the end of national aid for renewable energy.
http://lowcarbonfacts.eu/termination-of-subsidies-for-renewables-looming/

Hmmm... that can't be. I have it on good authority that the EU only objected to the UK's form of government support (suddenly the only thing that counts as a subsidy).

[kristopher]

1. And FBaggins continues cheering the right-wingers.

[FBaggins]

2. The cheering is entirely in your imagination

Apart from the entertaining factor of reality proving you wrong yet again.