Tag: Oettinger

Policies governing the European Union's drive towards a low-carbon economy should not lose sight of the need to retain the bloc's industrial base, Energy Commissioner Günther Oettinger said in a newspaper column today (16 July).

France and Britain, the two EU countries with the largest nuclear industry, strongly opposed stringent stress tests on nuclear power plants following the Fukushima disaster in Japan. Energy Commissioner Günther Oettinger's proposal to introduce them was sponsored by Austria, a country without nuclear energy, and backed by Germany.

The EU will formally offer to help Japan cool down stricken reactors at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, the European Commission announced today (18 March). The issue will be discussed in more depth at an extraordinary meeting of EU energy ministers to be held on Monday.

As experts increasingly express doubts about the EU's "hesitations" and communications failures, Energy Commissioner Günther Oettinger has announced plans for an "energy roadshow".

Günther Oettinger, the EU's energy commissioner, comes in for heavy criticism in a leaked cable recently released by WikiLeaks, which sees his promotion to Brussels portrayed as a move primarily aimed at getting rid of an embarrassing ally.

EU Energy Commissioner Günther Oettinger is under fire as public prosecutors in Stuttgart examine whether he lied in his declaration of interests about side activities. Oettinger is the only commissioner to have changed his declaration – and he has been forced to do so twice. EurActiv Germany reports.