Nuclear energy must be included in the framework of the European taxonomy before the end of this year, energy and economy ministers from ten EU member states said in a joint article published in several European newspapers yesterday. The ministers said nuclear energy is "an affordable, stable and independent energy resource". They noted it protects European consumers from price volatility and contributes to national energy security.
Nuclear energy must be included in the framework of the European taxonomy before the end of this year, energy and economy ministers from ten EU member states said in a joint article published in several European newspapers yesterday. The ministers said nuclear energy is "an affordable, stable and independent energy resource". They noted it protects European consumers from price volatility and contributes to national energy security.
27 July 2021
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Nuclear energy must be included in a delegated act of the European taxonomy, 18 trade unions in the energy sector from 10 European Union countries have told Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission (EC). In a joint letter, the unions called for a dialogue with the purpose of nuclear energy to play its full potential and build an economically efficient and socially just carbon-free Europe by 2050 .
The European Commission building in Brussels (Image: Pixabay)
In January, 13 trade unions representing energy and nuclear workers wrote to von der Leyen saying nuclear energy must be part of the European taxonomy in order to meet the objective of the Green Deal. Exclusion of nuclear power, they said, would not only have a negative impact on the European nuclear industry but also on electricity-intensive industries.
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04 February 2021
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Nuclear energy must be part of the European taxonomy in order to meet the objective of the Green Deal, thirteen trade unions representing energy and nuclear workers have told Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, in a joint letter. Exclusion of nuclear power will not only have a negative impact on the European nuclear industry but also on electricity-intensive industries, they said.
The unions that wrote a joint letter to EC President Ursula von der Leyen
The unions - representing workers in Belgium, Bulgaria, Finland, France, Hungary and Romania - hope their letter will draw attention to the key role of nuclear power generation in enabling Europe to achieve its objective of carbon neutrality, as well as in contributing to Europe s energy security and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. They note nuclear power currently provides almost half of the low-carbon electricity production in the European Union.