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The EU aims to save 20 percent by 2020, but the details are causing delays (Photo: European Community, 2006)

Helsinki clashes with Brussels on energy efficiency delay

Brussels has come under pressure from the Finnish EU presidency and environmental groups to re-consider its planned delay of a major proposal on how the bloc's member states should curb energy consumption by 20 percent by 2020.

The energy efficiency blueprint - aiming at saving around €60 billion a year in unnecessary energy costs - was originally supposed to see the light of day in mid-October.

But European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso rejected the latest version of t...

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The EU aims to save 20 percent by 2020, but the details are causing delays (Photo: European Community, 2006)

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