Brussels, 09/04/2014 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday 9 April, EU Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia defended the final version of the European Commission's new guidelines for state aid for energy and the environment, which have been slammed by environmentalists, who accuse the Commission of making consumers, rather than industry, pay the price of subsidising renewable energy (see EUROPE 11056).
The Commissioner said, referring to the European Commission: “We think that the new...