The European Commission says that only 43% of fossil fuel subsidies in the EU are set to end by 2025, those numbers fall short from reality.
The latest Study on energy subsidies and other government interventions in the European Union (2024) has recently been published. The report covers energy subsidies in the broad sense, including fossil and renewable, in various forms. The Stop Fossil Subsidies campaign notes a marginal improvement in the amount of fossil fuel subsidies (FFS) disbursed in the EU. Despite pledges committing to more transparency by Commissioner Hoekstra, serious transparency issues remain. Fossil fuel subsidies at €111 billion in 2023 According to the report, FFS more than doubled in 2022, reaching €136 billion, up from an average of €59 billion between 2015 and 2020,
Brussels, November 25, 2024 After a formal request for transparency from the Stop Fossil Subsidies campaign, the European Commission has released long-awaited data on energy subsidies across the EU, on the basis of which the 2023 DG ENER report on energy subsidies was delivered. The data is available in this folder and on the Commission transparency website (Member State Factsheets, Country Data Controls and Observations, Energy Subsidies Inventory). The release follows criticism directed at the Commission, particularly at European Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra, for failing to deliver on transparency commitments. Stop Fossil Subsidies highlighted the inconsistencies between Hoekstra’s rhetoric about transparency and
Since the launch of our open letter the hearings of the new European commissioners have taken place. Wopke Hoekstra – candidate for the post of Commissioner for Climate, Net Zero and Clean Growth – is responsible (with Dan Joergensen) to create a framework for the phase out of fossil fuel subsidies in the EU, as stated in his mission letter. Last week the European Parliament asked him questions on his background and his plans for the next five years. One of these questions focused on the phase out of fossil fuel subsidies: The commission has the legal means to do this but has lacked the determination, so far. For example,
Brussels, 5 October, 2024 Today at 2pm in Brussels, around 400 demonstrators from all over Europe and the Global South organised a climate march that began in Place du Luxembourg, in front of the European Parliament, and ended in Merode, where the demonstrators held a People’s Assembly on Climate Justice. Meanwhile, at 2.30pm, 135 activists, including Greta Thunberg, blocked Boulevard du Jardin Botanique, by Rogier metro station, for two hours. The demonstrators, united under the flag of United for Climate Justice (UCJ), called for an EU-wide end to government support for the fossil fuel economy. 115 people, including Greta Thunberg, were
