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Is the EU still transitioning to renewable energy?
The EU promised a renewable energy future – but is it still on track? As political shifts, policy delays and legal battles unfold, the energy transition faces new hurdles. Are we still moving forward, or is Europe starting to backpedal? Seden Anlar reports. Once upon a time – 2019, to be exact – the European Green Deal was the golden child of EU policy. Politicians across the spectrum embraced it with enthusiasm, promising a continent powered by renewables and free from climate-wrecking emissions by 2050. Fast forward five years and that green glow has started to fade. Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 threw energy markets into chaos, exposing the bloc’s dependence on fossil fuels. The subsequent scramble for energy security did accelerate some aspects of the energy transition, but it also shifted the EU’s focus toward immediate economic and defence concerns. Then came the political earthquake of 2024: an unprecedented surge of far-right and conservative parties swept into power, many of them itching to tear up environmental regulations in favour of ‘competitiveness’ and …
The EU promised a renewable energy future – but is it still on track? As political shifts, policy delays and legal battles unfold, the energy transition faces new hurdles. Are we still moving forward, or is Europe starting to backpedal? Seden Anlar reports. Once upon a time – 2019, to be exact – the European Green Deal was the golden child of EU policy. Politicians across the spectrum…
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