EU probes French corporate green tax caps, clears wind aid


By Foo Yun Chee and Michel Rose BRUSSELS/PARIS (Reuters) – European Union antitrust regulators are investigating whether green tax reductions granted by French authorities to energy-intensive users give the companies an unfair advantage. France, which wants to boost the share of renewable energy to 23 percent of its energy mix by 2020 from the current 15 percent, subsidizes renewable with a tax …

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