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Mid-2025 recap: What we have done on fossil subsidies in the EU

An answer to our open letter Having delivered an open letter in late 2024 signed by over 30 groups and 130 academics demanding an end to all fossil subsidies by 2025, the campaign received a formal response from the European Commission in February 2025. The Commission admitted that only 43% of EU fossil fuel subsidies are scheduled to end by 2025—a commitment the campaign calls both insufficient and incomplete, since many member states lack phase‑out plans. Fighting for data transparency In February the campaign sent a request to access the energy subsidy inventory underlying the yearly Study on Energy Subsidies, receiving

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COFFIS Observatory: New analysis reveals major gaps in countries’ commitment to ending fossil subsidies

The COFFIS Observatory, a new initiative by Stop Fossil Subsidies, has published the first in-depth review of fossil fuel subsidy inventories submitted by members of the Coalition on Phasing Out Fossil Fuel Incentives Including Subsidies (COFFIS).  Despite the ambition declared at its launch during COP28, only three out of the 12 original COFFIS members have met the basic requirement to submit a fossil fuel subsidy inventory. The remaining members have either failed to submit altogether or submitted documents that fall far short of what’s needed to achieve the coalition’s stated goals. COFFIS was launched to restore credibility after over 15 years

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EU fossil fuel subsidies remain high amid transparency issues

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,

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EU Commission releases energy subsidy data following transparency request

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

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