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Coal subsidy phase-out faces German opposition

ENDS Europe
Wednesday 18 August 2010
COAL MINING

Leading political parties in North Rhine Westphalia, Germany's largest state, have urged chancellor Angela Merkel to lobby for more time to end EU subsides for hard coal. The European Commission has proposed to phase out the subsidies by 2014.

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