Former Green Deal chief Frans Timmermans and his chief of staff, Diederik Samsom, were key advocates for the EU's maximalist hydrogen strategy (Photo: European Parliament)

EU's hydrogen strategy needs 'reality check', say auditors

Green Economy

by Wester van Gaal, Amsterdam,

Former Green Deal chief Frans Timmermans and his chief of staff, Diederik Samsom, were key advocates for the EU's maximalist hydrogen strategy (Photo: European Parliament)

The EU is unlikely to achieve its "unrealistic" aim to use hydrogen as green fuel, the European Court of Auditors (ECA) argued in a highly critical report published on Wednesday (17 July).

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Author Bio

Wester is a journalist from the Netherlands with a focus on the green economy. He joined EUobserver in September 2021. Previously he was editor-in-chief of Vice, Motherboard, a science-based website, and climate economy journalist for The Correspondent.