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Most EU countries sceptical about 45% renewable energy goal: document
(EurActiv, 19 Dec 2022) France, the Netherlands, Ireland, and several other EU countries are reluctant to back a European Commission proposal to boost the EU’s renewable energy objective for 2030 in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine, EURACTIV can confirm.
European Union countries are currently debating plans to increase the bloc’s renewable energy target to 45% by 2030, in line with European Commission proposals tabled in May this year.
The revised target was put forward as Europe seeks to exit Russian fossil fuels “well before 2030” in a bid to stop financing the Kremlin’s war effort.
“This is not only a war unleashed by Russia against Ukraine. This is a war on our energy, a war on our economy, a war on our values and a war on our future,” said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who defended the plans before the European Parliament in September.
But EU member states are reluctant to back the 45% target, according to a document summarising the position of EU capitals ahead of a meeting of EU energy ministers on Monday (19 December).
Instead, a majority of EU countries would rather stick to the 40% goal tabled by the Commission in July 2021, according to the document prepared by Czechia, which currently holds the EU’s six-month rotating presidency.
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