While the third session of interinstitutional negotiations (‘trilogue’) on the ‘REPowerEU’ regulation, scheduled for 7.30 pm on Tuesday 2 December, had not yet begun at the time of writing, the European Commissioner for Energy, Dan Jørgensen, indicated earlier in the day that the EU had the opportunity “to make history tonight and change the course of our energy future”.
This regulation, for which an agreement before the end of the year was still hoped for, aims to abandon all...