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Europe Energy, June, 2007
Greenpeace accused the European Commission of hypocrisy in phasing out subsidies for the dirty' coal sector. Earlier, on 21 May, the Commission published its report on state aid in the coal sector (see other article). The Commission recommended no changes to the current system of state aid that has been in place since the expiry of the European Coal and Steel Treaty in 2002. Eight member states granted some 4.1 billion in coal state aid in 2005, with Germany and Spain granting around 85% of the total. Other states granting aid are Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary and the UK.
"Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes says all the right things about diverting state aid from dirty sectors like coal to renewables and energy efficiency," said...
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