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European Green Party Co-Chair Reinhard Bütikofer comments on the decision by the European Commission to allow the British government to provide state aid for a new nuclear reactor at Hinkley:
“This is an extremely unfortunate decision, and goes in the face of the Commission's own guidelines on state aid to energy companies. Nuclear should be considered a so-called mature technology, that should be excluded from state aid. While the Commission is more and more hesitant or outright adversarial towards renewable energies, it is now opening a new door for lavish nuclear subsidies. That is an about-face and a major setback for the European energy transition that we need.”
