Helsinki clashes with Brussels on energy efficiency delay Date: Friday, September 29 @ 05:19:54 PDT Topic: Public Policy; Political and Legal News
Brussels has come under pressure from the Finnish EU presidency and environmental groups to re-consider its planned delay of a major proposal on how the bloc's member states should curb energy consumption by 20 percent by 2020.
The energy efficiency blueprint - aiming at saving around €60 billion a year in unnecessary energy costs - was originally supposed to
see the light of day in mid-October.
