France is set to bring in corporate sponsors for its EU Council presidency in the first half of 2022, despite calls to end with this controversial practice.
French carmakers Renault and Stellantis, which owns Peugeot and Citroën, are expected to provide 220 electric and hybrid cars to transport delegations and offset its mobility carbon footprint for the incoming EU presidency.
But civil society groups argued that the car industry has been mired by legal disputes over the emission...
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Elena is EUobserver's editor-in-chief. She is from Spain and has studied journalism and new media in Spanish and Belgian universities. Previously she worked on European affairs at VoteWatch Europe and the Spanish news agency EFE.