BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The Aland archipelago, part-way between Finland and Sweden, is the wind-swept setting for a legal spat over green energy subsidies with implications for the European Union as a whole.
Europe's highest court, the European Court of Justice, has just begun examining arguments which feed into the politically-charged debate about the cost of subsidizing renewable power.
In dominant EU-member Germany, green subsidies are particularly sensitive in an election year, as industry complains it is at a competitive disadvantage because of high energy prices.