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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12541
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SECTORAL POLICIES / Energy

NGO and business coalition calls on Commission to ensure fair competition in heating sector

A coalition formed by the NGOs ECOS and the European Environmental Bureau (EEB) and the organisations Solar Heat Europe and Euro Heat and Power sent a letter to the European Commission on Friday 31 July asking it to take action to ensure fair competition between technologies in the heating sector.

According to the letter’s signatories, renewable heating and cooling technologies are indeed facing “unfair competition” from fossil fuel-based technologies, thereby curbing their rate of...

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SECTORAL POLICIES
MIGRATION: Paris and Rome set up a ‘joint brigade’ against smuggling networks
FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS: EU commemorates Roma Holocaust against a background of increasing hate directed towards Roma community
DIGITAL: Council of Europe and European Commission take stock of copyright issues
ENVIRONMENT: ship recycling, public consultation on proposal to update list of approved facilities
ENERGY: NGO and business coalition calls on Commission to ensure fair competition in heating sector
TOURISM: EU deprived of 95% of tourists at height of Covid-19 crisis, says Eurostat
EXTERNAL ACTION
TRADE: Member States’ export credit practices are increasingly converging
AZERBAIJAN: S&D Group in European Parliament calls for sanctions against those responsible for human rights violations
CHINA: EEAS wants to step up its fight against Chinese disinformation
NEWS BRIEFS
AFGHANISTAN: EU condemns attack on Jalalabad prison
DEATH: tributes to John Hume, one of the fathers of Good Friday Agreement, who passed away at 83 years of age
CIRCULAR ECONOMY: International E-waste Day to be held on 14 October to promote recycling
COMPANIES: SMEunited calls for the principle of partnership to be respected
RULE OF LAW: France will argue for sanctions under conditionality mechanism
DIGITAL: TikTok takeover, USA puts pressure
REGIONS: Covid-19, European Commission approves Danish and Hungarian-Slovak reprogramming
UNITED KINGDOM: two new formal rounds of talks added to agenda for UK-EU future relationship negotiations