Italy's parliament voted Tuesday to delay the closure of the country's coal-fired power stations by over a decade, a move experts slammed as "worrying" political propaganda.
In a fresh challenge to the EU's green transition, Giorgia Meloni's hard-right coalition government pushed the shutdown back from 2026 to 2038 on "energy security" grounds.
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