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The construction of a smart power line in the south of Slovakia and a hydroelectric power plant under the Tatras will receive support from the Connecting Europe Facility, the European Commission has announced. In total, it has allocated around €1.25 billion to energy projects.
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The European Commission also wants to compete with the US and China by reducing environmental demands on companies. Changing the rules on the fly will harm businesses that have already started their green transformation, creating legal uncertainty and undermining green investments, they say.
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If the European Union wants to compete with the US and China, it will have to pour a lot of money into supporting industry. It wants to find it in the EU funds, which should be more closely linked to reforms after 2028. Slovakia may thus have one of the last opportunities to use European money to erase regional disparities, which it has so far failed to do.
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The new system of paying for carbon at EU borders is technically flawed, impractical and harms domestic producers, the industry says. EU climate chief Wopke Hoekstra wants to fix it.
