At their ‘Energy’ Council meeting in Luxembourg on Monday 20 October, the European energy ministers agreed on their position (‘general approach’) on the ‘REPowerEU’ regulation to phase out Russian fossil fuels by 1 January 2028 (see EUROPE B13733A7).
This result has been described as “unprecedented” by the European Commissioner for Energy, Dan Jørgensen.
Only Hungary and Slovakia rejected the compromise put together by the Danish Presidency of the Council of the EU, as...