An argument long advanced by Europe’s climate policymakers has been that renewable energy would be a critical step forward to independence from the whims of foreign despots (unless, until 2022 or so, they were Vladimir Putin, but let’s not talk about that).

How’s that drive for independence going?

Here’s a clue. In its effort to prop up a manufacturing sector that is being eroded (to use a gentle word) by the EU’s futile and failing “race” to net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, Brussels is proposing that the bloc should, Reuters reports, introduce “low-carbon and 'Made in EU' requirements for public

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