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Josep Borrell served on the board of Spanish energy firm Abengoa between 2009 and 2016. The company was involved in the construction of combined-cycle gas turbine power plants. During his stint with Abengoa, Mr Borrell received up to €300,000 a year. Three of Ursula von der Leyen's top EU officials have links to fossil fuel firms (Image: GETTY) European Commission Presdent Ursula von der Leyen (Image: GETTY) The Spaniard was forced to resign as the president of the European University Institute after failing to declare his interest in the firm in 2012. Mr Borrell holds a master’s degree i...

Three top officials in Ursula von der Leyen’s green-oriented European Commission – Josep  Borrell, Stella Kyriakides and Adina Vălean – have until recently had ties with the fossil fuel industry, according to new research revealed exclusively by EURACTIV.  The research by international NGO Global Witness has uncovered close links between the three EU commissioners and companies involved in the fossil fuel business.  Although all of them had severed ties with their previous jobs before joining the European Commission, their past activities or links between their immed...

Launching the European Green Deal in December 2019, European Commission (EC) president Ursula von der Leyen called it the continent’s “man on the moon moment”. The plan aims to achieve net-zero emissions in the European Union (EU) by 2050, and while it has been criticised for not being ambitious enough it does suggest that Europe is waking up to the need to face climate change head-on. Von der Leyen is backed up by the EC’s 27 commissioners – professional politicians responsible for leading the development of European policy in specific areas, one from each EU member state. The Gree...