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UK faces first EU challenge at WTO, over subsidies for green energy projects

By Joanna Sopinska
  • 29 Mar 2022 12:40
  • 29 Mar 2022 12:40
The UK is facing its first challenge from the EU at the World Trade Organization, over its "discriminatory" state aid policy that favors locally sourced materials in the selection process for green energy projects.
The European Commission, which oversees EU trade policy, said the UK government applies a local content criterion to

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Joanna Sopinska

Senior Correspondent


Joanna covers trade in Brussels. Formerly trade editor of EU Trade Insights, she has many years' experience reporting on trade, investment policy and foreign affairs. Before that, she spent nine years at Europolitics news agency writing on trade, agriculture policy and foreign affairs. Before moving to Brussels in 2006, Joanna worked as an analyst at the Polish Institute of International Relations (PISM) in Warsaw.

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