Industry insiders are hopeful that it will include tax incentives and subsidies to develop shale gas reserves.
Romania and Bulgaria, which joined the European Union only in 2007, are using their access to the bloc's agricultural subsidies to develop sturgeon farming.
How can it reconcile the desire for fiscal federalism and more autonomy for the regions of the rich north on the one hand, and state subsidies to develop the poorer and more needy south?
Besides generating electricity, it could use the hot water from the springs to heat houses, as Iceland does.Iceland's ambassador to Japan, Stefan Stefansson, says his country's experience suggests Japan does not need subsidies to develop geothermal energy.
A separate 850-page ruling by the W.T.O. in April found that Boeing had received at least $5.3 billion in improper United States government subsidies to develop the 787 and other jet models, giving it an unfair advantage over Airbus.
PARIS -- Airbus received government subsidies to develop and introduce all of its models over the decades -- but not all of them were necessarily illegal under global rules, the World Trade Organization said in a report published Wednesday.
Representative Norman Dicks, a Democrat from Washington who recently became the chairman of a House panel that oversees the Pentagon budget, said in an interview that if EADS had tried to bid on its own, there would have been "a real knockdown, drag-out battle" over a preliminary trade ruling indicating it had received improper subsidies to develop its planes.
The 30% decline in its latest half-year profits highlighted that China Telecom is facing battles on two fronts: shrinking fixed-line demand as well as higher marketing costs and handset subsidies to develop its 3G business.
Automakers and station owners have little incentive to invest without government subsidies to develop cars and stations.
The federal government already gives huge handouts to the coal industry, including large public subsidies to develop carbon capture and sequestration technology.
