Ciaran Sunderland

Reporter, Energy

A journalist in Brussels since October 2021, I joined Contexte's English language Energy section in April 2025 after more than three years with the German Press Agency.

As an EU and NATO corresponds, I covered everything from tech, climate, and environment, to migration, finance as well as foreign policy and economics.

I started my career with the Irish Examiner in Ireland and I am a graduate of Trinity College Dublin where I studied history and languages.

csunderland@contexte.com

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Brussels doesn’t want the sun to set on solar production

Douglas Rissing/iStock

28·05·25

Brussels doesn’t want the sun to set on solar production

Legal plans published on 23 May are part of Brussels’ ‘European preference’ strategy to strengthen domestic solar panel makers who face tough Chinese competition. After tariffs failed, and without major subsidies on offer, sceptics wonder if that approach might prove too little, too late to save an ailing European industry.