Negotiations on EU energy legislation have lost momentum. The EU has run into complex issues

Since its publication in December 2019, the European Green Deal has been at the heart of the current European Commission’s energy and climate policy. The Commission enshrined the goal of achieving climate neutrality in EU legislation and issued a large number of legislative proposals to help achieve it. In recent months, however, negotiations on energy and climate legislation have lost their previous momentum. And as negotiations move on to more complex issues, such as industrial decarbonisation, there is little reason to expect the situation to change. The news was reported by Euractiv.

The European Commission presented the European Green Deal at the beginning of its term in December 2019. The Commission, led by Ursula von der Leyen, put forward a plan to reform most of the EU’s energy and climate policy. Crises such as the coronavirus pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have, if anything, strengthened the European Green Deal.