| A tale of jamón and bacalhau. The Iberian Peninsula is a culinary powerhouse – think Spanish jamón and Portuguese bacalhau – and ranks among the EU’s top meat consumers. But as the global debate on animal products and the climate heats up, Spain and Portugal are taking very different bites out of the issue. An article by Maria Simon Arboleas and Sofia Sanchez Manzanaro. Keep trading and don’t forget China. In an interview with Euractiv's Angelo Di Mambro, former EU agriculture commissioner Franz Fischler warns against growing trade protectionism in the EU and instead urges an embrace of new bilateral trade deals. Less tax, more power. To combat high energy prices, Brussels is asking EU countries to stop charging consumers for renewable energy schemes and to cut power taxes – at least until deeper grid integration can be achieved, Nikolaus Kurmayer reports. Big bet on clean. The EU Clean Industrial Deal is here, pitching a €100 billion decarbonisation bank and European preference criteria in public procurement, write Stefano Porciello and Thomas Moller-Nielsen. Hurry up ... Business and labour groups have urged the Commission to speed up the roll-out of its much-vaunted plan to boost green industries, amid growing fears about the ability of EU manufacturers to survive against state-subsidised rivals in the US and China. Read more in Thomas Moller-Nielsen's article. Business cheers, NGOs jeer. The European Commission’s efforts to simplify green auditing rules have triggered an expected split in reaction, with business groups praising the move and NGOs and progressive lawmakers decrying it as a reckless rollback of corporate accountability, report Bárbara Machado and Magnus Lund Nielsen. | 
