Brussels, 11/09/2012 (Agence Europe) - The European Parliament is ratifying its agreement sown up in June with the Council on the energy efficiency directive. Through binding measures on energy savings, such as the renovation of public buildings, energy-saving programmes for public services, and energy audits for large companies, the text adopted aims to help the EU attain its goal of 20% energy savings by 2020, thus making savings of nearly €50 billion annually.
In Strasbourg on Tuesday...