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...This has been accompanied by policy setbacks, nationwide strikes, and a steep decline in the ruling coalition’s popularity....
...to cut fuel subsidies for farmers which triggered nationwide protests....
...Discontent about inflation and high energy prices plays a role, as does anger over a recent law to speed up the switch from gas boilers to heat pumps....
...But that record was tarnished last year by unforced errors, such as a law on replacing gas boilers with heat pumps that triggered a public outcry....
...Manfred Güllner of pollsters Forsa said frustration with Scholz’s government predated the surge in refugee numbers and had more to do with climate policies, in particular a law to phase out gas-fired boilers...
...Pollution from our vehicles and boilers leave them vulnerable to infections. Of course, it is easy to blame sparrowhawks....
...Instead, the Greens, led by vice-chancellor Robert Habeck, and Scholz’s Social Democrats have dominated the agenda, championing interventionist measures such as a ban on gas boilers and industrial subsidies...
...Nonetheless, it increasingly looks like hydrogen will have only a small role to play in the nationwide drive for net zero heat....
...Mike, a guard at Sonneberg’s main courthouse, complained about the huge nationwide refugee influx of recent months, which experts say is similar in scale to Germany’s migrant crisis of 2015-16....
...Teodora and George decided to go to a rent tribunal as the final straw after their landlord refused to pay to repair a leaky boiler....
...In the past few weeks, many of the UK’s largest lenders, including HSBC, Nationwide and Santander, have raised their mortgage rates, adding to pressure on landlords....
...Properly insulating the UK’s 29mn homes would push down the nationwide demand for energy and cut the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions....
...Fico resigned as prime minister in 2018 amid nationwide anti-corruption protests triggered by the murder of an investigative journalist and his fiancée....
...Andrew Harvey, Nationwide senior economist, said energy efficiency had had only a modest impact thus far on house prices....
...Alliance Q2 Friday China, EU, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK: final manufacturing purchasing managers’ index data EU, flash March inflation figure Japan, Q1 Tankan business sentiment survey UK, Nationwide...
...is yet to publish a key Heat and Buildings Strategy that was expected last year and campaigners fear prime minister Boris Johnson will shy away from much-need measures, such as a 2035 ban on natural gas boilers...
...Grosvenor is midway through a £90m retrofit programme to rein in emissions, focusing on replacing gas boilers, limiting draughts and switching to LED lighting....
...In the year to April, prices in the UK increased 3.7 per cent, according to Nationwide. Now a reversal is widely anticipated....
...The Green party is calling for the billions of pounds earmarked for HS2 to be diverted into a nationwide upgrade of local transport as part of its longstanding opposition to the contentious high-speed rail...
...Australia was another disappointment, with revenue down 8 per cent after the nationwide rollout of key competitor UberEats....
...But Beijing’s action to eliminate coal-burning sources, including industrial boilers and residential heating stoves, was not matched by the rollout of new gas infrastructure....
...I intend to grab another £100 bonus by switching from Nationwide to First Direct....
...Instalment loans last longer, between two to three months, and are taken when the sudden expense — a broken boiler, a bereavement — runs to hundreds or thousands of dollars. Both are big business....
...Ukraine’s energy ministry revealed that nationwide gas consumption was down 7.7 per cent year-on-year to 32 bcm in the first eight months of this year....
...Possible efficiency renovations include fitting greener lighting systems, ventilation and boiler upgrades, as well as installing smart meters and solar panels....
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