When the work of the plenary session got underway on Monday 15 January, the rapporteurs of the European Parliament on the key legislative texts of the ‘clean energy package’ - the revised directives on energy efficiency and renewables and the regulation on the ‘energy/climate’ system of governance, laid emphasis on the major challenges underlying Parliament’s vote, on Wednesday 17 January, to confirm the Parliament's negotiation mandates with the Council of the EU on these texts,...