Although not on the agenda, the delicate issue of including fossil gas and nuclear energy in the European Union’s taxonomy crept into the discussions of the EU Member States’ ministers on Friday 21 January in Amiens, during a joint informal ‘Environment/Energy’ meeting organised by the French Presidency of the EU Council.
Austria, Luxembourg, Spain, and Denmark had set the tone by publishing a letter the day before, expressing their intention to “defend a common position” at the...