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The European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy is continuing with its debate on the report by Eluned Morgan (PES, UK) on the Green Paper on Europe's energy strategy. [...]

Savings. The Green Paper offers no more nor less than to pull the brakes on the increasing energy consumption. Measures currently in place apply principally to the main energy consumers [...]

Reflection on security of energy supply in the European Union is continuing, said Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs, announcing on April 14 the publication of a new Green Paper on security [...]

The European Commission's future Green Paper on energy efficiency will put buildings at the top of the list of priorities, according to Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs. At a meeting on [...]

The European Commission's report on the Green Paper dealing with security of energy supply in the EU (see European Report 2696) has met with a great deal of enthusiasm from [...]

Meeting in Luxembourg on June 19, the team of European Commissioners failed to agree on the adoption of a final report on the Green Paper on the security of energy [...]

Plenty for ministers to talk about. The Commission's Green Paper on 'safe, competitive and sustainable energy' (following up the Green Paper 'towards a European strategy for the security of energy [...]

In its position paper on the Green Paper on the security of energy supply in the EU, the European nuclear industry lobby Foratom calls for support from the European Commission. [...]

At an informal meeting of energy ministers in Gödöllö, nearáBudapest, the Hungarian EU Presidency will present a discussion paper on the external aspects of the Union's energy relations. Ensuing ministers' [...]

The newly formed industry group Smart Energy Demand Coalition (SEDC) has presented a policy paper aimed at pushing smart demand side measures at European level. SEDC argues that billions are [...]

In a new paper for the European Policy Centre (EPC), Jorgen Henningsen, a former director in the European Commission's DG Environment, gives a mixed review of the Union's energy and [...]

The European nuclear industry trade association FORATOM welcomed the UK government's latest Energy White Paper that called for 'serious consideration' of nuclear power. In the consultation document accompanying the Energy [...]

In a new position paper, the SME employers' and crafts organisation UEAPME repeated calls for full ownership unbundling and bending state aid rules to enable more help with energy investments. [...]

At a breakfast meeting with US environmentalist Lester Brown, Green MEPs set out a position paper on food security and plant fuels entitled Food First'. Green MEPs Rebecca Harms, Satu [...]

Members of the European Parliament, during their plenary session in Strasbourg on 14 December, presented the European Commission with their understanding of the Green Paper on energy policy. Not surprisingly, [...]

Ahead of the European Parliament's vote on the European Commission's Green Paper on energy, several leading energy efficiency industries(1) are urging MEPs 'to get serious about energy savings'. They are [...]

On the fringes of parliamentary work on the Green Paper on the security of energy supply, the Socialist Group in the European Parliament has officially urged the European Council to [...]

The European Commission is expected on 12 October to adopt a working paper on energy issues, due to be discussed at the Lahti European Council on 20 October. This document [...]

On 3 October, the Committee on Regional Policies of the Assembly of European Regions (AER) officially published its response to the European Commission's Green Paper on Energy. They called for [...]

The Commission meeting that brought an end to the debate on the energy Green Paper took place on 22 September and was attended by all the Brussels representatives in the [...]

With a conference held in Brussels on 22 September closing the debate launched by the Green Paper on energy supplies in the EU, French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, speaking [...]

In order to support the preparation of its opinion on the Energy Policy Green Paper, the European Parliament's Industry Committee held a half-day hearing on the subject on September 12 [...]

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika are on the verge of signing a memorandum of understanding in the energy sector. A concept paper dating from [...]

As announced in its newly-adopted Green Paper on energy policy, the Commission proposes to forge closer ties with leading energy consumers. In view of its rapid economic development and fast-increasing [...]

Nuclear power will, not surprisingly, be one of the most hotly debated topics during the review of the Green Paper on European energy policy which is due to be completed [...]

Discussions among Energy Ministers in Brussels on 14 March provided a first the general impression on the European Commission's 8 March Green Paper on secure, competitive and sustainable energy (see [...]

Six priorities ultimately make up the European Strategy for Sustainable, Competitive and Secure Energy, outlined by the European Commission in its Green Paper published on 8 March (see Europolitics 3039 [...]

The European Commission has decided to postpone two eagerly-awaited strategy papers concerning renewable energy, scheduled for November 23: the report on support mechanisms for renewable sources (in the context of [...]

EU energy ministers will gather for a Council session in Luxembourg on June 28 at which the European Commission will make an oral presentation of its Green Paper on energy [...]

The Commission has already laid out its recommendations in its Green Paper on the security of Europe's energy supply, published in 2000, Miss de Palacio recalled. She said EU consumer [...]

The Commission has presented a second version of a strategy paper drafted on the basis of discussions on a first version after the last meeting of the Florence Forum on [...]

The Commission warned on the publication of the Green Paper on November 29, 2000 that the use of strategic European oil reserves needs to be put on a Community footing [...]

In its position on the European Commission's November 2000 Green Paper on the security of energy supply, the European Mine, Chemical and Energy Workers' Federation (EMCEF) urges Member States to [...]

The Commission Green Paper on the security of energy supply proposes ' analysing whether to maintain access to Community coal reserves and whether to maintain a minimum production capacity for [...]

The European Economic and Social Committee (ESC) unanimously adopted an Opinion on May 30 on the European Commission's Green Paper, 'Towards a European strategy for the security of energy supply'. [...]

Energy.The energy debates will include a number of references to the Northern Dimension of the EU's energy policy, particularly energy policy with Russia. During the debate on the Green Paper [...]

Energie-Cites, the Association of European municipalities which promotes local sustainable energy policy, has backed the European Commission's Green Paper on the security of energy supply. According to then organisation, 'the [...]

Eurogas does not agree with the Green Paper's analysis of the dangers of natural gas making up more of the EU's energy balance. The lobbying group is totally opposed to [...]

The CEOs of ten leading European energy companies are calling on the EU to end subsidies to renewables, come forward with a single carbon emission target that is 'ambitious but [...]

On May 14 in Brussels, the Eurelectric industry group will host its Power choices reloaded: Europe's lost decade?' conference at which the major, sometimes massive policy and energy-economic changes since [...]

Ahead of the European Council, on 4 February, devoted to energy and innovation, the EU's electricity industry called on heads ofástate and government to commit to greater coordination of nationaládecisions. [...]

The Spanish Minister of Industry, Tourism and Trade, Miguel Sebastián, will chair and informal meeting of the EU's environment and energy ministers in Sevilla, on 14-17 January. Top issues are [...]

A new report by Friends of the Earth Europe claims that the EU's biofuels policy is increasing deforestation and social conflicts in the Ketapang district of West Kalimantan province in [...]

The European Commission's proposal for a revised directive on security of gas supply is a direct response to the supply crises that Europe faced in 2006-2007 and 2009. Whatever the [...]

The next Parliament comes at a strategic moment as the EU beings to rethink its energy policy over the longer period up to 2050. A key element for MEPs will [...]

The role of nuclear safety in forming public opinion on nuclear energy was stressed byaDominique Ristori, deputy director general at DG TREN, who was one of the keynote speakers at [...]

Oil and gas occupy pride of place in the European Commission's second strategic energy review, to be adopted on 13 November. Final unpublished drafts of the bi-annual policy package, as [...]

Whilst the European Commission provides over 98% of the budget of the Energy Community, the organisation, with its Secretariat based in Vienna, is nevertheless determined to develop its own identity. [...]

The European Regulators' Group for Electricity and Gas (ERGEG) and the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) favour a 'tailor-made' EU market abuse framework forathe electricity and gas sector, according [...]

Just before the summer break, European energy regulators cleared their cupboards by issuing a series of reports*. The European Regulators Group for Gas and Electricity (ERGEG) notably listed problems thrown [...]