Applications for the €100 fuel subsidy are still open. The government has extended the deadline to August 31 for eligible low-income workers.
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The fuel discount costs the state money and favours fossil energy. However, this does not end the list of climate-damaging subsidies. Other measures also threaten the climate targets and bring the government to millions of dollars. "These are not nice measures that we are taking. But they help to limit inflation," Nora Back said after the tripartite negotiations in June. The OGBL president meant the fuel discount, which reduces the price of petr…