Negotiators from the three EU institutions reached a compromise on Wednesday 19 December in Brussels on the new regulatory framework for the electricity market, which will allow Member States to keep regulated tariffs and provides for the end of coal subsidies in 2025.
The EU is thus successfully closing the last chapter of the clean energy package, proposed by the European Commission at the end of 2016.
After 17 hours of negotiations, the Austrian Presidency of the Council and the...