Brussels, 08/04/2014 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday 9 April, the European Commission will unveil its new guidelines on state aid for energy and the environment to replace the 2008 guidelines. The revision process involved several weeks of consultation, but before they were published, the Commission had already been accused of caving in to pressure from industry and Germany.
This newsletter has seen the guidelines. They state that the partial exemptions for high electricity-using industry...