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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