“Germany would have wished for stricter provisions”
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
German state secretary in the economy ministry Rainer Baake welcomed the EU energy ministers’ agreement on energy savings targets, but said that Germany would have wished for binding provisions, writes Hendrik Kafsack in an article for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The federal government “apparently bets on” re-introducing stricter targets in the negotiations that now follow in the European Parliament, before the targets become law, writes Kafsack.
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