Brussels, 17/07/2001 (Agence Europe) - In the coming days or weeks, the European Commission will most likely be presenting the future State aid scheme for the coal industry, called upon to replace the one that expires on 23 July 2002. Responding to economic, environmental and security of supply necessities in the EU, it should provide for a downsizing of aid in view of a gradual transfer to renewable energies, which would enable the EU to maintain a "base" of indigenous primary, gradually...