Germany warns EU electricity tax plan threatens national sovereignty
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Germany warns EU electricity tax plan threatens national sovereignty
Germany accuses the European Commission of using an electricity market law to sidestep EU tax rules and national sovereignty. The dispute could affect the pace of the bloc’s electrification drive and efforts to reduce its reliance on imported fossil fuels.
Berlin vetoes the European Commission's proposal to reduce the taxation of electricity in relation to natural gas. The German Ministry of Finance denounces an institutional manoeuvre that would circumvent the unanimity rules in tax matters. At the heart of the debate, a technical issue with major strategic implications for the European Union's electrification target of 46% by 2040. The Nordic model: how Sweden and Finland reversed energy taxatio…
Your electricity bill weighs three to five times as much as that of natural gas. An aberration that slows down the energy transition and strikes the budget of European households. Brussels proposes to correct this fiscal distortion in order to speed up the electrification of the continent, but Berlin blocks the manoeuvre in the name of budgetary sovereignty. Behind this institutional arm of iron is a simple question: how much do you really pay f…
Germany accuses the European Commission of using an electricity market law to circumvent EU tax rules and national sovereignty, a dispute that can curb block electrification and its attempt to reduce dependence on imported fossil fuels. Germany opposes a European Commission plan to tax electricity at a lower rate than natural gas, and argues that Brussels intends to use electricity market legislation to impose rules that should be addressed thro…
The European Union is trying to accelerate electrification and recently set a target of reaching a 46% electrification share by 2040 in an effort to get rid of dependence on imported fossil fuels. Among other things, the European Commission plans to tax electricity at a lower rate than natural gas, which would lead to further pressure on gas prices. According to the experts interviewed, it is currently impossible to do without gas. They point ou…
Germany and the European Commission are in a conflict over how the EU can make electricity cheaper than gas to speed up electrification. Berlin accuses the Commission of trying to...
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