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The EU should be the heat-pump pioneer

But the union is falling behind in its efforts

But in February she blocked a draft law to slash the use of pesticides in farming, and loosened some of the environmental strings tied to the subsidies of the EU’s common agricultural policy. Still more striking was her decision to delay publication of a heat-pump action plan that had been scheduled for early in the year to an unspecified time after the elections. This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “The EU’s role as heat-pump pioneer”

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