On the whole, the EPP, S&D and Greens/EFA political groups at the European Parliament welcomed the adoption by the energy committee on Wednesday 21 February of draft negotiating mandates with the EU Council of Ministers on the four texts of the Clean Energy package relating to “electricity market redesign”. Environmentalist MEPs, however, like those of the far Left, criticised the weakness of provisions on energy poverty.
“We want to do away with heavy state subsidies and instead let...