Tag: Subsidies

American aircraft manufacturer Boeing is still getting US subsidies despite Washington's claim to have stopped the handouts, the European Union said yesterday (25 September) in the latest round of the world's biggest trade dispute.

High-profile support for #endfossilfuelsubsidies campaign helps it to top trending topic in US and second place globally.

High commodity prices have made European farmers much less dependent on farm subsidies, offering debt-laden countries a unique opportunity to reform the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), a new report published yesterday (5 October) by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has concluded.

Europe can increase its emissions reduction target if it finds ways to redirect funding from Western to Eastern European countries, which oppose the move to a more ambitious commitment to fight climate change, writes David Buchan from the Oxford Institute of Energy Studies.

The European Commission is planning to prolong subsidies for the coal industry until 2023, in an effort to help the sector's transition to cleaner energy and the eventual closure of mines, EurActiv has learnt.

Germany said yesterday (20 January) that it would cut its subsidies for solar power in line with the rapid take-up of the photovoltaic market. The news follows a similar announcement by France last week.

European biodiesel manufacturers have threatened to file complaints to the Commission and the World Trade Organisation (WTO) concerning US biodiesel subsidies, which they say are threatening both European industry and the Union's ambitious target of achieving a 10% share for biofuels in transport fuel by 2020.

The Parliament has called on the Commission to reconsider the consequences of a closedown or radical restructuring of the historic Polish shipyard, which is set to come at the expense of thousands of workers' jobs.

In the biggest case ever to come before the World Trade Organisation, the EU and US traded charges on 22 March 2007, claiming that rival plane makers Airbus and Boeing had received billions in illegal subsidies over the past decades.

EU wants to close the files of competing Airbus and Boeing unfair trade cases filed in the WTO.