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FILE PHOTO: The logo of Renault is seen on a car in Brussels, Belgium January 16, 2025. REUTERS/Johanna Geron/File Photo
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Renault, Volvo electric van unit wins new orders

PARIS (Reuters) – Flexis, a joint venture between automaker Renault and truck maker Volvo Group as well as shipper CMA CGM, said on...

A floating solar energy farm on the Cottbuser Ostsee lake in eastern Germany -- the EU hopes to strengthen supply lines for green technologies, like solar and wind power, chips and pharmaceutical ingredients (AFP)
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Red tape and rare earths: EU ‘compass’ charts economic future

Promising a “simplification shock”, the EU will unveil a much-anticipated blueprint to revamp Europe’s economic model on Wednesday, as the bloc struggles to...

FILE PHOTO: A view of a sign near the Northvolt factory in Skelleftea, Sweden August 8, 2024.   TT News Agency/Magnus Lejhall/via REUTERS/File Photo
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Northvolt asks shareholders for $1.3 billion for next two years, sources say

By Marie Mannes, Christina Amann and Emma-Victoria Farr STOCKHOLM/BERLIN/FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Northvolt asked more than 100 shareholders at a meeting this month to provide...

Rachel Reeves said Environmental Impact Assessments would be replaced by Environmental Outcome Reports (PA)
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Environmental assessment system to be replaced amid development drive: UK’s Reeves

Environmental assessments for building homes and infrastructure will be replaced with a new system as the government seeks to cut red tape.

Volkswagen and other European carmakers have struggled with the switch to electric vehicles as they face rising competition from China (AFP)
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Troubled European carmakers to talk fines and EVs with EU

The carmakers will converge on Brussels for talks this week as the EU seeks to chart a way forward for the embattled industry.

FILE PHOTO: Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a press conference following the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) summit in Astana, Kazakhstan, November 28, 2024. Sputnik/Ramil Sitdikov/Kremlin via REUTERS/File Photo
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Putin says he and Trump should meet to discuss Ukraine and energy prices

Putin seeks a meeting with Trump to discuss Ukraine and energy, but insists Zelenskiy must lift his ban on talks first.

People run as smoke rises from an explosion during what the governor of Russia's Ryazan region southeast of Moscow describes as an air attack, in Ryazan, Ryazan Region, Russia in this still image obtained from social media video released January 24, 2025. Social Media/via REUTERS
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Ukrainian drones hit big Russian oil refinery at Ryazan, sources say

Ukrainian drones strike Russian oil refinery in Ryazan, sparking fire, damaging key units processing five per cent of Russia's oil.

U.S. President Donald Trump makes a special address remotely during the 55th annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 23, 2025. REUTERS/Yves Herman
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Trump says US will guarantee LNG supplies for Europe

Trump says US would guarantee supplies of LNG to Europe, even amid worries that the booming export industry could boost prices of gas...

FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: Power-generating windmill turbines are seen at an offshore wind farm, Kriegers Flak, in the Baltic Sea between Denmark, Sweden and Germany, September 6, 2021. Ritzau Scanpix/Olafur Steinar Gestsson/via REUTERS/File Photo/File Photo
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Wind, not nuclear, is the best way to meet Sweden’s climate goals, leading think tank says

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – The cheapest way for Sweden to meet its expected rise in demand for electricity and goal of net zero emissions...

The poll found Scots would rather oil and gas came from the UK than from abroad (PA)
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Most Scots want more North Sea oil and gas to meet energy needs, poll finds

More than seven in 10 Scots back drilling in the North Sea to reduce the country’s reliance on foreign imports, a survey has...

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